Subtext : critiquing individual photographs within a collective consciousness / Andre Ruesch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruesch, Andre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photographic criticism.

Photography--Appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st edition

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Andre Ruesch has been an active photographer for over thirty years. After receiving a BA in photographic studies at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, he moved to Albuquerque to receive his MA and MFA for graduate studies in photography at the University of New Mexico. While there, his main mentors were Patrick Nagatani, Betty Hahn, and Eugenia Parry.Ruesch's work has been internationally exhibited in museums and galleries and published in the British Journal of Photography, Art in America, and Asian Art News among others.He lives in Massachusetts, where he is a Professor of Photography at the Lesley University College of Art and Design.

Contents:

chapter 1 The Velvet Hammer

The Potency of Elements / André Ruesch

chapter 2 The Personal Galaxy

The Symbol / André Ruesch

chapter 3 Just Fashion

A Question of Identity / André Ruesch

chapter 4 Nike and the Butterfly

The Reversed Stereotype / André Ruesch

chapter 5 Staying in Line

Conductivity / André Ruesch

chapter 6 Politics

The Metaphoric Landscape / André Ruesch

chapter 7 Henry's Tale

The Photographic Fable / André Ruesch

chapter 8 Moment by Moment

Elapsed Time—Eadweard Muybridge Revisited / André Ruesch

chapter 9 The Drowned Gun

Time as Poetry / André Ruesch

chapter 10 Split Again

The Reversed Connection / André Ruesch

chapter 11 The Other Half

Water and Air / André Ruesch

chapter 12 The Original

Please Touch the Art / André Ruesch

chapter 13 The Tyranny of Borders

The Fractured Elements / André Ruesch

chapter 14 The Holy Rosary

Belonging / André Ruesch

chapter 15 A Conversation with God

The White Elephant in the Room / André Ruesch

chapter 16 Superstructure

Conflation / André Ruesch

chapter 17 Lady Like

Body Language / André Ruesch

chapter 18 Recycling

The Image Ecology Approach / André Ruesch

chapter 19 Appropriation

Reinterpretation / André Ruesch

chapter 20 Dad

Titled versus Untitled / André Ruesch

chapter 21 Speed and Stoicism

The Nature of the Elements / André Ruesch

chapter 22 Reflection

The Literally and the Figuratively / André Ruesch

chapter 23 Sky View

Upside Down / André Ruesch

chapter 24 Blood is Blood

Assumption / André Ruesch

chapter 25 Hypnagogia

Viewpoint / André Ruesch

chapter 26 Harmonia

Rendering the Invisible / André Ruesch

chapter 27 Snap

Breaking Point / André Ruesch

chapter 28 Recognition

The Need for Invisibility / André Ruesch

chapter 29 Big and Small

How We Give Thanks / André Ruesch

chapter 30 Ammo and a Happy Meal

Be Theatrical / André Ruesch

chapter 31 The Spider and the Net

Catch and Caught / André Ruesch

chapter 32 Dirty Jobs

A Deceptive Comedy of Errors / André Ruesch

chapter 33 What is to Come

Dreaming / André Ruesch

chapter 34 The Angel and the Wasp

The Order of the Elements / André Ruesch

chapter 35 In the End

Censorship / André Ruesch

chapter VIII If Lost or Lonely

Get Your Work Out There / André Ruesch

chapter IX Epilogue

Florence + The Machine / André Ruesch.

Notes:

"Part Number: 161609"

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781317502241

1317502248

9781315714851

131571485X

9781317502258

1317502256

OCLC:

993980346