Photolanguage: How Photos Reveal the Fascinating Stories of Our Lives and Relationships

by Robert U. Akeret

Book Overview

Here, using 150 photographs spanning 100 years, Akeret explores such themes as power, seduction, immortality, passion, and narcissism. Readers will find Frank Sinatra uncharacteristically off balance, O. J. Simpson smirking his way to freedom, Jodie Foster adored by her mother, Bill Clinton unconvincingly wagging a finger, and Bill Gates as the Wizard of Oz. The author shares his personal interpretations, teaching by example and inviting readers to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039304968X
• ISBN13: 9780393049688
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Psychologic, Not Photographic

I think, more than being a photographic book, it is psychologic. It learns the reader or someone intersted in photography to be accurate and to look at the photographs as a text and read the photographs from a psychologic poin of view.

A fine study of how the photo captures attitudes

Photolanguage examines how photos reveal family stories and relationships, gathering over a hundred photos of famous people and including analysis of both familiar and uncommon images. A fine study of how the photo captures attitudes and offers insights on these relationships.