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Beschreibung
What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose?

In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry, Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more, drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others, and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Weston, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard.

Written in a clear and engaging style, On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography, aesthetics, art, and visual studies.

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose?

In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry, Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more, drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others, and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Weston, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard.

Written in a clear and engaging style, On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography, aesthetics, art, and visual studies.

Zusammenfassung
Diarmuid Costello is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick, UK.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: On Photography, Then and Now

2. Foundational Intuitions and Folk Theory

3. Aesthetic Scepticism and its Critics

4. Transparency and its Critics

5. Conclusion: The Unity of Photography.

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780415684491
ISBN-10: 0415684498
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: Y121136
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Costello, Diarmuid
Auflage: 1st ed.
Hersteller: Routledge
Taylor & Francis
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Maße: 216 x 138 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Diarmuid Costello
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.10.2017
Gewicht: 0,78 kg
Artikel-ID: 123282983