Main entry:

Photographers' Gallery, organizer, host institution.

Title & Author:

Reading photographs : understanding the aesthetics of photography / the Photographers' Gallery ; by Jonathan Bayer ; with essays by Ainslie Ellis, Ian Jeffrey, and Peter Turner.

Edition:

[1st American edition.]

Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [1977]
©1977

Description:

87 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published under title: Concerning photography.
Originally published as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Photographers' Gallery, London, and Spectro Workshop, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1977.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Time -- Symbol -- Organization of the picture -- Abstraction and ambiguity of space -- Surrealism -- Sequences -- Light -- View of the city -- View of humanity.

Summary:

Includes works by Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, J. Russell Sorgi, Andre Kertesz, Charles Harbutt, Otto Steinert, WIlliam Klein, Eugene Atget, and Homer Sykes and many others.

ISBN:

0394501276
9780394501277
0394735846 (pbk.)
9780394735849 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Black-and-white photography Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographie en noir et blanc Expositions.
art photography.
Black-and-white photography.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bayer, Jonathan, 1936- author.
Davies, Sue, writer of foreword.
Ellis, Ainslie, 1920-1997, writer of introduction.
Turner, Peter, 1947-2005, writer of supplementary textual content.
Jeffrey, Ian, writer of supplementary textual content.
Spectro Workshop, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 59957
Call No.: TR183.P47 1977 (PO10636)
Status: Available