How does a photograph "work"? In this book, internationally acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore brings together more than 50 images (by such photographers as Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Frank Gohlke, Lee Friedlander and Jan Groover) to illustrate a process of looking at and understanding photography. He traces the process by which the world in front of the camera is transformed into a photograph - and how that photograph, in turn, is transformed into a mental image. A photograph, Shore explains, ...
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How does a photograph "work"? In this book, internationally acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore brings together more than 50 images (by such photographers as Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Frank Gohlke, Lee Friedlander and Jan Groover) to illustrate a process of looking at and understanding photography. He traces the process by which the world in front of the camera is transformed into a photograph - and how that photograph, in turn, is transformed into a mental image. A photograph, Shore explains, can be viewed on several levels. First, it is a physical object, a print. On this print is an image, an illusion of a window onto the world. It is at this level that we "read" a picture and discover its content: a souvenir of an exotic land, the face of a lover, a wet rock, a landscape at night. This is the depictive level, in which the world is transformed into a photograph through qualities of flatness, frame, time and focus. On a final level is the mental apprehension of the image, which joins the focus of lens, eye, attention and mind. Using these levels of seeing, Shore reveals how the qualities of a photograph create tension and meaning - as the collapsing of depth creates new relationships; as lines and shapes in the image play against the frame; as focus creates barriers in the depth of an image; as the duration of exposure variously transforms the fluid world in to a static piece of film.
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Add this copy of The Nature of Photographs to cart. $152.49, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University Pre.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Full number line present on copyright page. The dust jacket has a small tear on the front at the top left near the spine. Dust Jacket is in protective covering. HARDCOVER Very Good-Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark-NICE Standard-sized.
