On Photography
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On Photography

A Philosophical Inquiry

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eBook - ePub

On Photography

A Philosophical Inquiry

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351970839
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism
Index
Note: Page references in italic refer to Figures. Page references such as P1 refer to the Plates Section (e.g. P1 refers to Plate 1)
Abell, Catharine 125–126, 131–132
accidental photographs 60, 72
accuracy 14, 125, 127–128
Adams, Ansel 27, 31, 143
aesthetic interest 33, 53–54, 55, 56, 57, 66, 67, 68, 105
aesthetic principle, basic 31, 33, 36
aesthetic scepticism 31, 52–53, 66–67, 68
aesthetic value 2, 105, 121, 134, 141
allographic arts 142, 143–144
Aluminum Foil (Welling, 1980) 146–147, 149
America by Car series (Friedlander, 1995–2009) 62, 63
analogue photography 77, 90, 142, 143, 144
Arbus, Diane 61, 64
Archer, Frederick Scott 11
Atencia-Linares, Paloma 83, 84–85, 87
autographic arts 142–143, 144
automaticity 6, 9, 11, 38, 45–46
automatism 40, 41–42, 43–45, 46
basic aesthetic principle 31, 33, 36
Bazin, André 1, 13, 37–39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44
belief-independent feature-tracking 87, 89, 93, 131, 132, 135, 142
belief-independent photographs 68, 84
B...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of plates
  8. List of figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: On photography, then and now
  11. One: Foundational intuitions and folk theory
  12. Two: Aesthetic scepticism and its critics
  13. Three: Transparency and its critics
  14. Color Plates
  15. Conclusion: The unity of photography
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index

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