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1	Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images more books like this by Terry Barrett ""Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images "is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.42! \| SVS
2	Another Way of Telling more books like this by John Berger, Jean Mohr Novelist and art critic John Berger examines the power of photographs in this volume of work by Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, who also adds his own thoughts. The photographs--mainly delineating the daily life of a French peasant woman--raise questions about the relationship between the photographer and his subject. see all copies from $2.23! new only from $12.51! \| first editions
3	At the Edge of the Light at the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography & Photographers, Talent & Genius Thoughts on Photography & Photographers, Talent & Genius more books like this by David Travis Gets to the emotional, technical and aesthetic core of genius at work. In these seven essays Travis presents his thoughts on some of his favourite subjects: Weston, Stieglitz, Kertesz, Brassai and Strand. see all copies from $7.83! new only from $7.83! \| first editions
4	Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography more books like this by Geoffrey Batchen In an 1828 letter to his partner, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceeded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $17.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Veronica's Revenge: Contemporqry Perspectives on Photography more books like this by Kathy Acker, Elizabeth Janus (Editor), Holger Liebs The Lambert Collection is one of the greatest collections of contemporary photographs in the world, made during a time in which photographic art has undergone fundamental changes in both its intentions and perceptions. This collection of essays by the foremost writers on international contemporary art accompanies full-page reproductions of 130 ... see all copies from $20.74! new only from $25.99! \| first editions
6	Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain more books like this by Mark Reinhardt (Editor), Holly Edwards (Editor), Erina Duganne (Editor) Susan Sontag once remarked that since the invention of the camera, photography has "kept company with death." And indeed, images of suffering human beings and devastated landscapes appear regularly in the popular media and even in contemporary art. This volume explores these painful images from the past few decades of photography, weighing in on ... see all copies from $16.50! new only from $18.12! \| SVS
7	Henri Cartier-Bresson and the artless art more books like this by Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson is perhaps the greatest photographer of the twentieth century. In a career spanning more than sixty years, he has used his camera as an impassive and neutral third eye to capture the vagaries of human behavior and to produce some of the most memorable and compelling photographs ever published. In this impressive biographical ... see all copies from $23.07! new only from $78.25! \| first editions
8	Criticizing Photographs2ed more books like this by Terry Barrett see all copies from $3.63! new only from $29.95!
9	Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period more books like this by Joel Eisinger This historical survey of American theory and criticism of art photography covers the period from late-nineteenth-century Pictorialism through 1970s formalism. The author deals deftly with the difficulties faced by critics -- from the essential question, how is photography an art at all? to the more modernist question of what constitutes the ... see all copies from $3.21! new only from $3.21! \| first editions
10	Light Matters: Writings on Photography more books like this by Vicki Goldberg Vicki Goldberg, one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, is well known for her cogent and perceptive writing, which is regularly featured in such national publications as the New York Times, American Photographer, and Vanity Fair. Aperture's Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters gathers for the first time a selection of this ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $25.91! \| first editions
11 view cover	Lynching Photographs more books like this by Shawn Michelle Smith, Dora Apel Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many communities, it was a public event, to be witnessed, recorded, and made available by means of ... see all copies from $13.81! new only from $13.81! \| SVS
12 view cover	Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs more books like this by Sophie Howarth (Editor), Darsie Alexander, Geoffrey Batchen see all copies from $11.50! new only from $13.81! \| SVS
13 view cover	Depth of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media, and Lens Culture more books like this by A D Coleman A collection of meditations on subjects related to photography which exemplify Coleman's ongoing work as a critic and historian of photography, art, and mass media. see all copies from $61.69!
14 view cover	Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-Century Photography more books like this by Peter C Bunnell, Malcolm Daniel (Foreword by) Over some 30 years as a professor and curator at Princeton University, Peter C. Bunnell has been a profoundly influential force in conversations about photography's past and present. He has written extensively--articles, books, catalogue essays--and this up-to-date collection of texts from throughout his career supersedes the beloved out-of-print ... see all copies from $6.60! new only from $36.74! \| first editions
15 view cover	Tina Modotti: Image, Texture, Photography more books like this by Andrea Noble Italian American photographer Tina Modotti (1896--1942) has become the subject of renewed popular and critical attention with a spate of recent biographies, academic articles, and films. Because Modotti was an intensely engaged political figure whose activism took her to Mexico, the former Soviet Union, and Spain, her biographers have focused ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $3.96! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation more books like this by Blake Stimson This is a study of three photographic projects that emerged in the 1950s - "The Family of Man", Robert Frank's "The Americans", and Bernd and Hilla Becher's typological record of industrial architecture - that expressed the modern desire for social belonging - the dream of nation. The old dream of social belonging and political sovereignty - the ... see all copies from $7.30! new only from $10.01! \| SVS
17 view cover	How to Look at Photographs more books like this by David Finn A book on the art of photography, which tells the reader how to learn to read and appreciate fine photography. It is a general book which is a collection of impressions and experiences that the author has amassed in his own decades of photographic exploration. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.08!
18 view cover	Cindy Sherman more books like this by Johanna Burton (Editor), Craig Owens, Douglas Crimp This title contains critical essays on Cindy Sherman and one of contemporary art's most innovative bodies of work. With her "Untitled Film Stills" of the 1970s, Cindy Sherman became one of the era's most important and influential artists. Since then, her metamorphosing self-portraits and appropriation of genres can be seen as a continuous ... see all copies from $5.85! new only from $5.85! \| SVS
19 view cover	Betty Hahn: Photography or Maybe Not more books like this by Steve Yates Betty Hahn has been making photographs for over thirty years. But, as this mid-career retrospective shows, she is not a photographer in any strict sense; she is a designer, a painter, a director, a detective, and an innovator. Never one to be constrained by the boundaries, Betty Hahn has been a key person in the revival of nineteenth-century ... see all copies from $8.10! new only from $23.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Making It Real more books like this by Vik Muniz, Dr. William Mitchell, Luc Sante (Foreword by) see all copies from $8.45! new only from $14.13! \| SVS
21 view cover	Illuminations-PB more books like this by Liz Heron (Editor), Val Williams (Editor), Lucia Moholy The first anthology of its kind, "Illuminations" presents a comprehensive selection of women's writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles ... see all copies from $9.33! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	The photograph--a strange confined space more books like this by Mary Price This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases. The first is that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs. The more detailed the description, the more precisely the viewer's observation is directed. This leads to the second emphasis, that the use of a ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $17.92! \| SVS
23 view cover	Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings, 1968-1978 more books like this by A D Coleman It could be said that when he commenced publishing his "Latent Image" column in the "Village Voice" in May 1968, A.D. Coleman invented the concept of the photography critic. With that first essay, which opens this classic collection of his early writings, Coleman introduced the idea that photography as a medium merited the full-time attention of a ... see all copies from $5.66! new only from $27.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact more books like this by Nicholas Zurbrugg (Editor) This book offers a major reappraisal of Jean Baudrillard's thoughts on the image, radical illusion and media culture. Here for the first time, through a number of highly accessible interviews and recent essays, Baudrillard introduces what he calls the 'stunning clarity' of the photographic, and fascinatingly outlines his present thoughts on urban ... see all copies from $28.64! new only from $40.70!
25	Illuminations-CL more books like this by Liz Heron (Editor), Val Williams (Editor), Lucia Moholy The first anthology of its kind, "Illuminations" presents a comprehensive selection of women's writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles ... see all copies from $5.19! new only from $9.71!

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