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Title Photography and philosophy : essays on the pencil of nature / edited by Scott Walden
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource ( xii, 325 pages) : illustrations
Series New directions in aesthetics ; 5
New directions in aesthetics ; 5
Contents Introduction / Scott Walden -- Transparent pictures: on the nature of photographic realism / Kendall L. Walton -- Photographs and icons / Cynthia Freeland -- Photographs as evidence / Aaron Meskin and Jonathan Cohen -- Truth in photography / Scott Walden -- Documentary authority and the art of photography / Barbara Savedoff -- Photography and representation / Roger Scruton -- How photographs "signify": Cartier-Bresson's "reply" to Scruton / David Davies -- Scales of space and time in photography: "perception points two ways" / Patrick Maynard -- True appreciation / Dominic McIver Lopes -- Landscape and still life: static representations of static scenes / Kendall L. Walton -- The problem with movie stars / Noël Carroll -- Pictures of King Arthur: photography and the power of narrative / Gregory Currie -- The naked truth / Arthur C. Danto
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-317) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Photography -- Philosophy.
Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
Author Walden, Scott, 1961-
Wiley InterScience (Online service). Medicine 2014
ISBN 9780470695890 electronic bk
0470695897 electronic bk