Title & Author:

Photography theory / edited by James Elkins.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, ©2007.

Description:

x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

The art seminar ; 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. Introduction -- Theories of photography : a short history / Sabine T. Kriebel -- Section 2. Starting points -- Conceptual limitations of our reflection on photography : the question of "interdisciplinarity" / Jan Baetens -- After medium specificity Chez Fried : Jeff Wall as a painter; Gerhard Richter as a photographer / Diarmuid Costello -- Following pieces : on performative photography / Margaret Iversen -- Time exposure and snapshot : the photograph as paradox / Thierry de Duve -- Introductory note / Rosalind Krauss -- Section 3. The art seminar. [the participatants were]: Jan Baetens, Diarmuid Costello, James Elkins, Jonathan Friday, Margaret Iverson, Sabine Kriebel, Margaret Olin, Graham Smith, [and] Joel Snyder -- Section 4. Assessments. Michael Leja ; Nancy Shawcross ; Anne Collins Goodyear ; Peggy Ann Kusnerz ; Alan Cohen ; Martin Lefebvre ; David Green ; Sharon Sliwinski ; David Bate ; Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; Michel Frizot ; Geoffrey Batchen ; Johan Swinnen ; Hilde Van Gelder ; David Campany ; Joanna Lowry ; Carol Squiers ; Patrick Maynard ; Vivan Sundaram ; Rosalind Krauss ; Liz Wells ; Beth E. Wilson ; Martin Lister ; Shepherd Steiner ; Alan Trachtenberg ; Victor Burgin ; Joel Snyder -- Section 5. Afterwords -- The trouble with photography / Anne McCauley -- Photographs and fossils / Walter Benn Michaels.

Summary:

"Photography Theory" presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen and Carol Squiers in animated debate on the nature of photography.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

9780415977821 (hbk.)
0415977827 (hbk.)
0415977835 (pbk.)
9780415977838 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography Philosophy.
Photographie Philosophie.
21.40 photographic art: general.
Fotografie
Theorie
Ästhetik
Theorievorming.

Added entries:

Elkins, James, 1955-
Art seminar ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257710
Call No.: BIB 188235
Status: Available