Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings, 1968-1978

It could be said that when he commenced publishing his Latent Image column in the Village Voice in May 1968, A.D. Coleman invented the concept of the photography critic. With that first essay, which opens this classic collection of his early writings, Coleman introduced the idea that photography as a medium merited the full-time attention of a working critic. From then until now, he has steadfastly exemplified the complex possibilities of such a role within our photographic culture. Considered essential reading for all students of the medium since it was published in 1979, this selection of more than eighty of Coleman's essays charts the medium's dramatic evolution during an explosive period in its history, and simultaneously tracks his own exploration of the diverse functions inherent in his chosen task as a "public critic." this new edition includes four additional essays, among them his provocative observations on John Szarkowski and Susan Sontag. Widely and favorably reviewed when it first appeared, Light Readings has since become a standard reference work on the medium and a frequently assigned classroom text. It remains the single best first-person chronicle of the years that it covers.

Light readings: A photography critic's writings, 1968-1978

Coleman, A.D.

Oxford University Press

Articles examine new trends in photography as well as the creative efforts of contemporary photographers

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The grotesque in photography

208pp. DJ w/ clear plastic cover: Very Good w/ plastic cover has some rubbing. The Book: Very Good+++.

Summit Books

A collection of stunning photographs of animals--by some of the greatest photographers of all time--help children appreciate photography and understand how photographs are made. By the author of the Looking at Paintings series.

Looking at Photographs: Animals

Children's Books

Lowe, Jacques

Arts, Music & Photography

Chronicle Books LLC.

Where did photography come from? What has it meant to us until now? How are we presently perceiving it? Where might we be heading with it at the end of this century? These are the recurring questions that Coleman addresses throughout this provocative collection of essays. Beginning with The Destruction Business, a meditation on the work of the critic, Coleman goes on to scrutinize a diverse yet connected set of issues, among them the perils and pitfalls of ideologically driven historianship (in case studies of William Mortensen and Edward S. Curtis); the effect of computerization on photography and art education; the transformative impact of the lens on Western culture; and the ethical issues raised by street photography.

Depth of Field: Essays on Photographs, Mass Media, and Lens Culture

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Depth of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media and Lens Culture

In his large-format color Polaroid portraits, Dawoud Bey aims “to make an unabashedly lush and romantic rendering of people who seldom receive that kind of attention.” Some of his favorite subjects are streetwise African American teenagers for whom eye contact is a finely-judged art. They face the camera with a sort of edgy candor, half bravado, half suspicion, accentuated by the arrangement of the triples. This well-illustrated book is the first major publication to survey Bey's 20-year career and coincides with an exhibition at the Walker Center traveling to other museums across the country.

Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995

Reynolds, Jock

Individual Artists

Walker Art Center

For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein’s East Harlem body of work remained mostly untouched and unseen. The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016, and a selection is gathered here for the first time. The photographs were taken over a number of years, beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a member of the Photo League. 
The East Harlem corpus, edited by Régina Monfort, represents an important and unique addition to the photographic history of New York City. Because there are no negatives in existence, it was of particular importance to preserve the images in book form and make them available to the public.
The selected images reflect the postwar years in the East Harlem community, which would grow into a center of Puerto Rican culture and life in the U.S. From the families portrayed gathering on stoops, to the kids at their shoeshine stations, to youths playing ball in the streets, to posters on neighborhood walls, Goldstein’s images of East Harlem provide a window into the socio-economic, cultural, and political landscape of the time.

East Harlem: The Postwar Years

González, Juan

Goldstein, Leo

powerHouse Books

Enlarges one’s awareness to the significance of photography in relation to our cul-ture during this transformative period. Selected lectures and essays concentrate on themes of justice and fairness. (Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award,1997)

Tarnished Silver: After the Photo Boom: Essays on Photography and Related Matters 1979-1989

Midmarch Arts Pr

American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (1897–1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom Ansel Adams called the "Antichrist" and to whom Anton LaVey dedicated The Satanic Bible.
Mortensen's countless technical innovations and inspired use of special effects prefigures the development of digital manipulation and Photoshop. Includes a gallery of more than one hundred striking photographs in duotone and color, many of them previously unseen, and accompanying essays by Mortensen and others on his life, work, techniques, and influence.

American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen

Moynihan, Michael

Lytle, Larry

Humor & Entertainment

Feral House

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