The critical eye : fifteen pictures to understand photography / Lyle Rexer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rexer, Lyle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photographic criticism.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, 2019.

Summary:

The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts - historical, generic, biographical, and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works it is possible to understand the history, development, and contemporary situation of photography. Looking at images by photographers such as Roland Fischer, Myoung Ho Lee, Zanele Muholi, and Ernest Cole, The Critical Eye addresses a wide range of issues involved in photography, from authorial self-consciousness to the role of the audience, and with every chapter it seeks to link the history of photography to current practice.

Contents:

Introduction: How Is a Photograph?; Life and Work: Does Biography Matter?; Reading Photographs: Decisions in and Beyond the Frame; The Origins of Photographies; Portraits: The Other Side of the Mask; Street Photography: Where the Sidewalk Ends; From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Memes Come True; Other Natures (Landscape in Five Views of Yosemite); Beyond Fashion; Troubling Images: Don't Look Now; Them/Us; Abstraction in Photography: Picture Nothing; Photojournalism: A World of Witnesses; Unphotographable; Everybody's Pictures; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-78938-042-1