my journey towards a BA in photography
This again was a recommendation from my tutor and this is wonderful book which simplifies, shortens and summaries key works of photographic theory which can be notoriously impenetrable for the inexperienced student. e.g. Susan Sontags On Photography, Barthes Camera Lucida…
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This book was a recommendation from my tutor Robert Enoch as it gives a good through introduction to the major concepts in modern photography theory – hence its title. Not necessarily the easiest book to read in parts, in general…
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This is a very different book to the other book I have by Ian Jeffery, The Photo Book. Whereas The Photo Book takes you on a whistle-stop tour of the development of photography over the last 150 years by showing…
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Liz Wells is a professor in Photographic Culture and Plymouth University and she has edited together this rather useful volume (now in it’s 5th Edition) which cover several major arrears of photographic theory, with chapters covering: Key debates in photographic…
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I have had this book for a good while I think the first Christmas after starting to study with the OCA. I added it blindly to an Amazon or Book Depository Wisj List and I received it as a Christmas…
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The Photography Book by Ian Jeffery Book Review This a small compact book reference book containing around 500 images from many different genres of photography and 1 image per photography. It provides a whistle-stop tour through the last 150 years of…
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Roland Barthes Camera Lucida This is Barthes last book and was written shortly after his mother’s death. The Book is about what makes a photograph memorable, but it also Barthes processing the grief for his mother through trying to…
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Response to Barthes – Death of the Author In summary here Barthes is saying the author of the written word and visual arts have often spoon-fed their audience with the information they needed to understand a work. Giving a…
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Street Photography Now by Sophie Howarth & Stephen McLaren Book Review Rather embarrassingly I have had this book on my bookshelf since 2010 when I purchased rather cheaply (for Hong Kong) at the HK Book Fair. however, it has sat gathering dust…
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