La Grange, Ashley.

Basic critical theory for photographers / Ashley la Grange. - Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier Focal Press, 2005. - xvii, 261 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. + pbk.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-225) and index.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing -- John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye and Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs -- Susan Sontag, On Photography -- Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida -- Martha Rosler, In, Around and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography) -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Inside/Out -- Clive Scott, The Spoken Image: Photography and Language -- Andy Grundberg, The Crisis of the Real -- Raghubir Singh, River of Colour -- Bertrand Russell, Appearance and Reality -- Italo Calvino, The Adventures of a Photographer -- Poems by Felix Morisseau-Leroy and George Szirtes -- Robert Adams', John Baldessari's and Peter Godwin's Analysis of Particular Photographs.



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Photographic criticism.
Photography--Philosophy.

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