On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry
Auteur : Costello Diarmuid
What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose?
In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry, Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more, drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others, and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Weston, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard.
Written in a clear and engaging style, On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography, aesthetics, art, and visual studies.
1. Introduction: On Photography, Then and Now
2. Foundational Intuitions and Folk Theory
3. Aesthetic Scepticism and its Critics
4. Transparency and its Critics
5. Conclusion: The Unity of Photography.
Index
Diarmuid Costello is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick, UK.
Date de parution : 09-2017
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 09-2017
13.8x21.6 cm
Thèmes d’On Photography :
Mots-clés :
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery; photography; Gelatin Silver Print; Kendall Walton; Light Sensitive Surface; Alfred Stieglitz; Combination Printing; Lee Friedlander; Photographic Event; Wolfgang Tillmans; Straight Print; Stanley Cavell; Red Safety Light; Paul Strand; Equivalence Thesis; Elizabeth Eastlake; Pure Photography; André Bazin; Basic Aesthetic Principle; László Moholy-Nagy; Counterfactual Dependency; Peter Henry Emerson; Light Image; Edward Weston; Photographic Agency; Roger Scruton; Walker Evans Archive; Patrick Maynard; Walton’s Account; Berenice Abbott; Autographic Arts; visual studies; Transparency Thesis; aesthetics; Goodman’s Sense; art; Egocentric Information; Hopkins’s Account; Photography’s Standing; Sontag’s Book; Analogue Photography; Scruton’s Argument; Photographic Art