Main entry:

Coleman, A. D.

Title & Author:

Tarnished silver : after the photo boom : essays and lectures, 1979-1989 / by A.D. Coleman.

Publication:

New York : Midmarch Arts Press, [1996]
©1996

Description:

xiii, 233 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
I. Prelude -- Choice of audience/choice of voice -- II. Barometric pressures -- Context and control -- The Fox Talbots were iffy -- Weegee as "printmaker" : an anomaly in the marketplace -- Interesting conflicts -- On the dole : revamping public funding for the arts -- Damn the neuroses! Full speed ahead! or, thoughts on the free-lance life -- Identity crisis : the state of photography education today -- Polaroid : toward a dangerous future -- Photography criticism : a state-of-the-craft report -- The hand with five fingers; or, photography made uneasy -- Memoirs of a circuit rider -- III. Paradigm shift -- Silverplating the dandelion : the canonization of Father Flye's snapshots -- Slim pickings in hog heaven : Garry Winogrand's Stock Photographs -- Photography at MoMA : a brief history -- IV. Revisionism and gap-plugging -- Making history -- Some notes on the photography book -- Color photography : the vernacular tradition -- Is criticism of color photography possible? -- The autobiographical mode in photography -- The photographic still life : a tradition outgrowing itself -- Hybridization : a photographic tradition -- Collaborations through the lens : photography and performance art -- V. Comstockery redivivus -- Candy camera, censored cheesecake -- "Porn," polls, and polemics : the state of research on the social consequences of sexually explicit material -- The arrival of the explicit : contemporary erotic photography -- Local community standards strike again.

ISBN:

9781877675201
187765202
1877675202

Subject:

Photographic criticism.
Photography, Artistic.
Critique photographique.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Fotografi teori, filosofi.

Form/genre:

Photography, Artistic.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 112110
Call No.: ID:96-B2083
Status: Available