Thinking Photography

Burgin, Victor; Benjamin, Walter; Eco, Umberto; Sekula, Allan; Tagg, John; Watney, Simon. Thinking Photography. London, England: MacMillan Education, 1982.

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Abstract (English)

This anthology contains critical essays by six authors who explore issues concerning the production of meaning in photographs. The theoretical discourses of semiology, marxist cultural studies, psychoanalysis and art history are applied to the photographic practices of advertising, journalism and art. Includes selected bibliography, index, biographical notes.

Types:	Anthologies, essays, collections
All Contributors:	Burgin, Victor (Editor); Burgin, Victor (Author); Benjamin, Walter (Author); Eco, Umberto (Author); Sekula, Allan (Author); Tagg, John (Author); Watney, Simon (Author); Walton, Paul (Prefacer)
Dossier:	800 - PHOTOGRAPHIE / PHOTOGRAPHY
Collation:	239 p. : 32 ill. ; 22 x 14 cm. - (Communications and Culture)
ISBN:	0333271955
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	London, England: MacMillan Education
Artists:	Arbus, Diane
Keywords:	PHOTOGRAPHY; ADVERTISING; DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY; MARXISM; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SEMIOLOGIE; REPRESENTATION; ART HISTORY; IDEOLOGY; JOURALISM; ECONOMICS; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BRECHT, BERTOLT; CAMERAWORK; CLARK, T.J.; ECO, UMBERTO; EVANS, WALKER; FOUCAUT, MICHEL; FREUD, SIGMUND; NEW OBJECTIVITY; NOVY LEF; RODCHENKO, ALEXANDER; STIEGLITZ, ALFRED; TRETYAKOV, SERGEY; HINE, LEWIS; DELAND, JACK; LEE, RUSSELL; JARCHÉ, JAMES; FRIEDLANDER, LEE; MOHOLY NAGY, LASZLO; BOIFFARD, J.A.; SMIRNOV, L.; LANGMAIV, E.; SAJCHET, A.; MAXIMOV, N.
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Date Deposited:	16 Oct 1997
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2012 17:01
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/11766

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