What Photography Is.

In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Elkins, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; What Photography Is; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Writing; 2. Selenite, Ice, Salt; 3. From the Green River to the Brunswick Peninsula; 4. A Drop of Water, World Trade Center Dust; 5. The Rapatronic Camera; 6. Lingqi; Credits.