About this title: 'Its chief virtues are a succinct, mostly lucid style, a wide intellectual scope, a flood of ideas and insights at every turn, sensitivity to the technology and culture of photography, and a willingness to attend to images ...In the end, perhaps the best measure of a text is whether or not one would choose it from among all the offerings to use in class. I have chosen to use this book' - Photo Review, Spring 2000. 'An excellent introductory history book' - "Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism".In this wonderful and entertaining book, Hirsch has produced the most ...
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. Very Good Paperback-Inside is clean & unmarked & in very good condition-Outside shows lite shelf/reading wear-Please see our feedback! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 528 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780697143617ISBN:0697143619
Description: New. "Its chief virtues are a succinct, mostly lucid style, a wide intellectual scope, a flood of ideas and insights at every turn, sensitivity to the technology and culture of photography, and a willingness to attend to images...In the end, perhaps... read more
"This is a textbook. A broad overview of photography. It's dry and skims over a lot of stuff, but... it's a textbook. Impossible to carry around. Lots of names."
"Better than other books I"ve read of the same genre. They tend to be bbland by nature but this one kept me interested. I loved the photos they included ..."
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