On photographs
Campany, David2020
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Is it possible to describe a photograph without interpreting it? Can a viewer ever be as dispassionate as the mechanism of a camera? And how far can a photographer's intentions determine responses to their image, decades after it was made? These are just a few questions that David Campany eloquently addresses in 'On Photographs'. In the tradition of Susan Sontag and John Berger, 'Campany' explores the tensions inherent to the photographic medium - between art and document, chance and intention, permanence and malleability of meaning - as well as the significance of authorship, performance, time, and reproduction.
Main title:
On photographs / David Campany.
Author:
Campany, David, author
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2020.
Collation:
264 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780500545065 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
770
Language:
English
BRN:
2279920