The Nature of Photographs

by Stephen Shore

Book Overview

How does a photograph "work"? In this book, internationally acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore brings together more than fifty images (by such photographers as Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Frank Gohlke, Lee Friedlander, Edward Weston, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801857198
• ISBN13: 9780801857195
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 8.3"