Why Photography Matters

by Jerry L. Thompson

Book Overview

Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works -- not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. He constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas Pynchon (and why we read him for his vision and not his command of miscellaneous facts) to Jonathan Swift...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019280
• ISBN13: 9780262019286
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher