Criticizing photographs : an introduction to understanding images /
Barrett, Terry Michael, 1945-
Criticizing photographs : an introduction to understanding images / Terry Barrett. - 3rd ed. - Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c2000. - xiii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-204) and index.
1. About Art Criticism -- 2. Describing Photographs -- 3. Interpreting Photographs -- 4. Types of Photographs -- 5. Photographs and Contexts -- 6. Evaluating Photographs -- 7. Theory: Is It Art? -- 8. Writing and Talking About Photographs.
Publisher description: "Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing. Moreover, Barrett's analytical categorization of photographs into ideal types including the aesthetically evaluative and the interpretive (to cite two examples) has provided readers with a highly original and useful way to think about how photographs are made to function in the world." Louis Kaplan, Southern Illinois University
0767411862
99026895
Photography, Artistic.
Photographic criticism.
NR642 / .B365 2000 TR642 / .B365 2000
770/.1
Criticizing photographs : an introduction to understanding images / Terry Barrett. - 3rd ed. - Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c2000. - xiii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-204) and index.
1. About Art Criticism -- 2. Describing Photographs -- 3. Interpreting Photographs -- 4. Types of Photographs -- 5. Photographs and Contexts -- 6. Evaluating Photographs -- 7. Theory: Is It Art? -- 8. Writing and Talking About Photographs.
Publisher description: "Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing. Moreover, Barrett's analytical categorization of photographs into ideal types including the aesthetically evaluative and the interpretive (to cite two examples) has provided readers with a highly original and useful way to think about how photographs are made to function in the world." Louis Kaplan, Southern Illinois University
0767411862
99026895
Photography, Artistic.
Photographic criticism.
NR642 / .B365 2000 TR642 / .B365 2000
770/.1