• Media type: Book
  • Title: The pleasures of good photographs
  • Contains: The pleasures of good photographs -- Literate, authoritative, transcendent: Walker Evans's American photographs -- Simply the best: John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget -- A tale of two portraits: La comtesse de Castiglione and Blind woman -- The other Americans: Richard Avedon's Nothing personal -- Ruthless courtesies: the making of Martin Parr -- A certain sensibility: John Gossage, the photographer as auteur -- Pleasant Sundays: Robert Adams's Listening to the river -- From here to eternity: the expeditionary artworks of Thomas Joshua Cooper -- Invisible city: the L.A. street photographs of Anthony Hernande -- Far from New York City: The grapevine work of Susan Lippe -- Country matters: Anna Fox's Photographs 1983-2007 -- Odysseys: Patrick Zachmann and contemporary diaspora -- From Diane Arbus to Cindy Sherman: an exhibition proposal -- Without author or art: the "quiet" photograph -- Elliptical narratives: some thoughts on the photobook -- It's art, but is it photography? Some thoughts on photoshop.
  • Contributor: Badger, Gerry [Author]
  • imprint: New York, NY: Aperture, c2010
  • Published in: Aperture ideas: writers and artists on photography
  • Issue: 1st ed
  • Extent: 255 S.; zahlr. Ill; 22 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781597111393; 1597111392
  • RVK notation: AP 94800 : Ästhetische Fragen
  • Keywords: Fotografie > Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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