Main entry:

Coleman, A. D.

Title & Author:

Light readings : a photography critic's writings, 1968-1978 / A.D. Coleman ; introduction by Shelley Rice.

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and expanded.

Publication:

Description:

xxxii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dialogues with myself in time / Shelley Rice -- 1968. Latent image -- Paul Strand (I) -- Jerry Uelsmann (I) -- 1969. Christmas gift: "Harlem on my mind" -- Richard Kirstel (I): "pas de deux" -- Critique -- 1970. James Van DerZee -- Roy DeCarava: "Thru black eyes" -- "Photography into sculpture": sheer anarchy, or a step forward? -- Inside the museum, infinity goes up on trial -- Holography: a prophecy -- The horrors of Hiroshima -- Roger Minick: Delta west -- Robert Heinecken: a man for all dimensions -- Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street -- Duane Michals (I): Sequences -- Richard Kirstel (II): Is this the Scopes trial of photography? -- 1971. Jerry Uelsmann (II): he captures dreams, visions, hallucinations -- Les Krims: four photographs that drove a man to crime -- Fundi: the nuances of the moment -- Peter Bunnell: money, space, and time, or the curator as juggler -- Jan Van Raay: the crest of a tidal wave -- Photography and conceptual art -- Harvey Stromberg: the sneakiest show in town -- Diane Arbus (I): the mirror is broken -- "I have a blind spot about color photographs" -- Larry Clark: Tulsa -- Danny Seymour: A loud song -- Michael Abramson: Palante -- More on color: readers speak out -- A manifesto for photography education.
1972. Danny Lyon and Geoff Winningham: barred doors, bared mats -- Paul Strand (II) -- Bernadette Mayer: "Memory" -- Thomas Barrow and Charles Gatewood -- Duane Michals (II): The journey of the spirit after death -- Who will be the replacements? -- Bea Nettles -- Judy Dater -- Beuford Smith: he records the texture of black life -- Not seeing Atget for the trees -- Robert Frank: The lines of my hand -- Ed Ruscha (I): "My books end up in the trash" -- Ed Ruscha (II): "I'm not really a photographer" -- Van Deren Coke: The painter and the photograph -- Ansel Adams: let me make one thing perfectly clear -- Robert D'Alessandro: New York's funky epiphanies -- Diane Arbus (II): her portraits are self-portraits -- Bob Adelman and Susan Hall: Down home -- 1973. Robert Delford Brown: an introduction -- Life may have died, but photography lives on -- Ralph Gibson: Deja-vu -- Minor White: Octave of prayer (I) -- Minor White: Octave of prayer (II) -- Michael Lesy (I): Wisconsin death trip -- Must they "progress" so fast? -- Shouldn't we be more concerned? -- "Photography: recent acquisitions" -- Clarence John Laughlin -- Bill Dane -- Emmet Gowin.
1974. Julio Mitchel -- W. Eugene Smith: "Minamata" -- Michael Martone: Dark light -- New Japanese photography -- Paul Diamond -- Abigail Heyman and Imogen Cunningham -- "From today, painting is dead": a requiem -- Art critics: our weakest link -- Reinventing photography -- 1975. My camera in the olive grove: prolegomena to the legitimization of photography by the academy -- Because it feels so good when I stop: concerning a continuing personal encounter with photography criticism -- 1976. Where's the money? -- The indigenous vision of Manuel Alvarez Bravo -- On plagiarism -- "Violated" instants: Lucas Samaras and Les Krims -- Novel pictures: the photofiction of Wright Morris -- The directorial mode: notes toward a definition -- 1977. Humanizing history: Michael Lesy's Real life -- Visual recycling: Irving Penn's "Street material" -- Lament for the walking wounded -- 1978. No future for you? Speculations on the next decade in photography education -- Appendix. Walker Evans: gone to look for America -- Taking pictures: photography and the territorial imperative -- On the subject of John Szarkowski: an open letter to the directors and trustees of the Museum of Modern Art -- Susan Sontag: off photography.

ISBN:

0826316670 (pbk.)
9780826316677 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photographic criticism.
Critique photographique.
Fotografie
Aufsatzsammlung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237911
Call No.: BIB 167761
Status: Available