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Criticizing photographs : an introduction to understanding images / Terry Barrett.

By: Publication details: Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub. Co., c2000.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0767411862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770/.1 21
LOC classification:
  • NR642 .B365 2000
  • TR642 .B365 2000
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks NR642 .B365 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000728773

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

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