The Education of a photographer / edited by Charles H. Traub, Steven Heller, and Adam B. Bell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traub, Charles, 1945-

Heller, Steven.

Bell, Adam B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Study and teaching.

Photography.

Photographers.

Physical Description:

xvii, 237 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Allworth Press, [2006]

Summary:

This lively and idiosyncratic collection of writings from the diverse thinkings about photography will bring encouragement and insight to all of those engaged in lens-based media in the twenty-first century. From the early twentieth-century masters to the postmoderns and on to today's incisive visionaries, this thought-provoking book will navigate the reader through the varied landscape of photography, eloquently expressing what it means to be a photographer.

Contents:

Foreword: Photo Literacy / Steven Heller x

Introduction: Years of Teaching / Charles H. Traub xii

Section 1 Reflections on the Medium: What It Means to Photograph

The Paths of Modern Photography (1928) / Alexander Rodchenko 1

Photography at the Crossroads (1951) / Berenice Abbott 7

Untitled (1952) / Henri Cartier-Bresson 12

The Camera Mind and Eye (1966) / Minor White 23

Worlds in a Small Room (1974) / Irving Penn 28

Interview with Lee Friedlander (1996) / David Harris 30

Colleagues (1996) / Robert Adams 32

Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled (2001) (excerpt) / Philip Perkis 36

A Fluttering Knuckleball: Lunch with Stephen Shore and Tim Davis (2004) / Stephen Shore, Tim Davis 38

Central America and Human Rights: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2000) / Ken Light 42

Pictures from Home (1992) / Larry Sultan 48

The Plaintiff Speaks (1994) (excerpt) / Clarissa Sligh 51

The Soul of the Image and Visual Literacy (2005) / Daile Kaplan 60

Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1984) (excerpt) / Vilem Flusser 65

Interview with Vera Lutter (2003) / Peter Wollen 67

A Conversation with Jeff Wall (2000) / David Shapiro 76

Natura Pictrix (1997) / Peter Galassi, Vik Muniz 82

Section 2 How Others See Them: Considering the Photographer

/ William Klein Brian Palmer, from Klein Symposium Statement (1989) 89

/ Lisette Model Max Kozloff, from New York: Capital of Photography (2002) 94

/ Diane Arbus Shelley Rice, from "Essential Differences: A Comparison of the Portraits of Lisette Model and Diane Arbus" (1980) 96

/ Alexey Brodovitch Kerry William Purcell, from Ballet (2002) 100

/ Aaron Siskind Charles H. Traub, from Roadtrip (1989) 106

/ Garry Winogrand Leo Rubinfien, from Some Reminiscences (2001) 113

/ Luigi Ghirri Luigi Ghirri/Charles H. Traub, from Statement/A Remembrance (1999) 124

Writers on Photography

The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971) / Wendell Berry 126

Shots (1977) / Cynthia Ozick 130

Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph (2004) / Dave Eggers 131

Section 3 Finding an Audience: Working with the Professionals

/ Alexey Brodovitch Brodovitch on Photography (1961) 133

/ Helen Gee Limelight (1997) (exerpt) 140

Photography Today: Interviews

The Privilege to Work for Artists / Peter MacGill 143

Visualizing Martha / Gael Towey 145

Documenting in the Twenty-First Century / Robert Pledge 150

The Photo Book / Yolonda Cuomo 158

Editing Visuals / Elisabeth Biondi 164

The Artist in the Marketplace / Charlotte Cotton 168

Section 4 Guides for the Uneducated: Higher Education and Photography

History of Photographic Education with an Emphasis on Its Development in the United States (2005) / Nathan Lyons 177

Commitment (1962) / John Szarkowski 185

Valentine (2005) / Stephen Frailey 188

The Dos and Don'ts of Graduate Studies: Maxims from the Chair (1995) / Charles H. Traub 190

A Handy Kit for Do-It-Yourself Critics (1962) / Ralph Hattersley 194

Unprecedented Photography (1927) / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 199

When a Student Asks (1956) / Minor White 201

A Brief List of Self-Assignments for Artists (2005) / Mary Virginia Swanson 203

Shared Wisdom

Solving Problems (1979) / Aaron Siskind 205

Learning from the Bauhaus (1979) / Harry Callahan 208

The Narrative / Gregory Crewdson 210

Remembering Life Through Photographs / Randy West 213

The Medium as Subject / Penelope Umbrico 216

Objects of Desire / Sarah Charlesworth 218

A Photographic Thesis

At/Tension: The Essence of Portrait Photography (2005) / Rachel Dunville 221.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

158115450X

OCLC:

65469553

Publisher Number:

9781581154504