1 option
Words not spent today buy smaller images tomorrow : essays on the present and future of photography / by David Levi Strauss.
LIBRA TR183 .S79 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strauss, David Levi.
- Series:
- Aperture ideas: Writers and Artists on Photography.
- Aperture ideas: Writers and Artists on Photography
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Social aspects.
- Photography.
- Photography--Psychological aspects.
- Photographic criticism.
- Storytelling.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Stein, Judith E. (donor) (Fine Arts copy)
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aperture, [2014]
- Summary:
- "At this transitional moment in the field of photography, how should we consider what is to come for the medium? Can its past and present practitioners help guide us, both as creators and as observers? David Levi Strauss--eminent author, critic, and teacher--rises to the challenge of these questions and more in Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Past and Future of Photography. In the course of twenty-five essays, some of which appear for the first time in this volume, Strauss discusses the work of artists who provoke us with revealing, clear-eyed investigations of the ostensibly patent world in front of us, and others who transport us to new realms, poetic and unreal--creative minds ranging from Frederick Sommer, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama, and Joseph Beuys to contemporary photographers Sally Mann, James Nachtwey, Susan Meiselas, Tim Davis, and many others. Also considered are the groundbreaking theoretical writings of Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Nancy, the films of Chris Marker and Stan Brakhage, and issues and events that have irrevocably altered the way we consider the medium of photography and how it communicates: 9/11, Abu Ghraib, the death of Osama bin Laden, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- An Amplitude That Information Lacks
- On Susan Meiselas
- Eros, Psyche, and the Mendacity of Photography
- On Sally Mann
- Revolt, She Said
- On Carolee Schneemann
- Written in the Blood of Women
- On Jenny Holzer's Lustmord
- Fictrix Jane
- On Jane Hammond's Photo
- Collages
- PART II
- Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow
- On Frederick Sommer
- On the Edge of Clear Meaning
- On John Wood
- The Democracy of Universal Vulnerability
- On Robert Bergman's Portraits
- La Mirada, and the Evidence of Things Not Seen
- On Latin American Photography
- Out on Hypoluxo Road
- On Tim Davis's America
- PART III
- On Susan Sontag
- On Larry Clark
- On Daido Moriyama
- On Helen Levitt
- On James Nachtwey and 9/11
- Plates
- PART IV
- Troublesomely Bound Up with Reality
- On the Aestheticization-of-Suffering Critique Today
- The Shutters Come Down
- On the Death of Kevin Carter
- Inconvenient Evidence.
- Contents note continued: On the Images from Abu Ghraib
- A New Lament of the Images
- On President Obama's Decision Not to Release More Images from Abu Ghraib
- Over Bin Laden's Dead Body
- On Withholding and Displacing Public Images
- PART V
- The Endless Structure of Recollection
- On Chris Marker
- A Change in the Imaginary
- On Images and Magic
- In Case Something Different Happens in the Future
- On Joseph Beuys and 9/11
- Enough of Us to Say No
- On the Images from Tahrir Square
- Occupied Images
- On the Images from Zuccotti Park.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597112710
- 1597112712
- OCLC:
- 859579363
- Publisher Number:
- 40023769841
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.