Title & Author:

Thinking photography / edited by Victor Burgin.

Publication:

London : Macmillan, 1982.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Series:

Communications and culture

Notes:
"Victor Burgin and his collaborators ... challenge the concept of the autonomous, spontaneously creative artist, the idea of documentary truth in photography and the notion of purely visual languages. They develop an account of the production and meaning of a photograph within social institutions - advertising, journalism, art - within a society with a history and within the unconscious."--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index.
The author as producer / Walter Benjamin -- Critique of the image / Umberto Eco -- Photographic practice and art theory / Victor Burgin -- On the invention of photographic meaning / Allan Sekula -- The currency of the photograph / John Tagg -- Looking at photographs / Victor Burgin -- Making strange: the shattered mirror / Simon Watney -- Photography, phantasy, function / Victor Burgin.

Summary:

Concerned with the production of meaning in photographs.

ISBN:

0333271947
9780333271940
0333271955 (pbk.)
9780333271957 (pbk.)
0333272947

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Photography.
Photographie.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
21.40 photographic art: general.
Fotografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Kunstbeschouwing.
Kunsttheorie.
Photography Philosophy.
Photography Psychological aspects.
Art and photography.
Images, Photographic.
Photography Theories

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliographies (form)
Photography, Artistic.

Added entries:

Burgin, Victor, editor.
Communications and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249931
Call No.: BIB 179468
Status: Available