Main entry:

Daval, Jean-Luc.

Title & Author:

Photography : history of an art / by Jean-Luc Daval ; [translated from the French by R.F.M. Dexter].

Publication:

New York : Skira/Rizzoli, 1982.

Description:

269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Histoire d'un art, la photographie.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Reproducing. The idea of photography ; Initial social effects ; The recording of movement and its fascination ; Photography and painting ; The popularizing of photography -- II. Producing. Arresting time ; Images of the invisible ; A social dimension -- III. Expressing. The ascendancy of the image ; Photography as a creative medium.
Translation of: La photographie, histoire d'un art.

Summary:

Nearly half a century ago Walter Benjamin wrote: "Subtle distinctions have been pointlessly made in the effort to decide whether or not photography is an art. What was not asked first of all is whether this very invention has not transformed the general character of art." <p>Today it seems more necessary than ever to show the extent to which photography, as a creative medium, has indeed reshaped the conception and practice of art. That is what this book sets out to do. </p><p>

ISBN:

0847804607
9780847804603

Subject:

Photography History.
Photography, Artistic History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photographie artistique Histoire.
PHOTOGRAPHY--HISTORY.
Photography
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Dexter, R. F. M., translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 10480
Call No.: IDX; ID:87-B13845
Status: Available