What Photography Is

by James Elkins

Book Overview

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415995698
• ISBN13: 9780415995696
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"