On Photography Costello Diarmuid
On Photography Costello Diarmuid What is photography? Many have said the former, because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it embodies human subjectivity. Is it primarily…
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On Photography Costello Diarmuid
What is photography? Many have said the former, because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it embodies human subjectivity. Is it primarily a source of knowledge about the world or an art?
In so doing he introduces some of the fundamental topics and debates about the nature of photography, with the help of photographic images from Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, Jeff Wall, and Gerhard Richter, among others.Tracing the roots of thinking about photography from its discovery, through Nineteenth Century debates about its standing as art, to Twentieth Century Modernism and post-War cultural criticism, Costello identifies the emergence of a powerful "orthodox" Can it photography be both or must we choose?In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more.