Title:
On photography
Publication Date:
1990
1977
Publication Information:
New York : Picador : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1990]
©1977
Physical Description:
208 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780312420093
Abstract:
Essays explore the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence of the photographic image in modern-day life; consider the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge; and examine the works of major photographers.
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1977.
Contents:
In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- Heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- Image world -- Brief anthology of quotations.
Language:
English
