What Photography Is
by James Elkins
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Paperback / softback. New. In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing.
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- Title
- What Photography Is
- Author
- James Elkins
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- Paperback / softback
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0415995698
- ISBN 13
- 9780415995696
- Publisher
- Routledge
- This edition first published
- 2011-04
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