Main entry:

Badger, Gerry.

Title & Author:

The pleasures of good photographs : essays / by Gerry Badger.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Aperture, ©2010.

Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Series:

Aperture ideas: writers and artists on photography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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ISBN:

(pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781597111393
1597111392

Subject:

Composition (Photography)
Photography History.
Photography Philosophy.
Composition (Photographie)
Photographie Histoire.
Photographie Philosophie.
Photography

Form/genre:

History

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Writers and artists on photography.