Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form.
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
Benjamin was in error – Walter Gropius appointed MoholyNagy a master at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, working in typographic design and experimental film. From 1923 to 1925 he was the director of the preliminary course and head of the ...
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 ...
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
you will have either conceived photography as a means for delivering photographs (defined in such and such a way), or conceived photographs as the product of a process called photography (understood in such and such terms).
that inexorably promotes the entire history of photography. Small wonder that photography critics and photographers seem anxious. Underlying many of the recent defenses of photography is the fear that photography is already a senile art ...
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality.
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of transparency.