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Truth and Photography
Jerry L. Thomson
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Description for Truth and Photography
Hardcover. This work explores the many-levelled relationship between seeing and thinking. It reproduces some 20 photographs, and discusses these pictures and picture-taking occasions, and are not strictly historical, nor are they concern only with theoretical considerations. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Pictures made by a lens are inextricably linked to the real world—the world the photographer not only sees but lives in and thinks about. The most ambitious photographs (in an earlier time one might confidently have said the greatest photographs) recognize that an understanding of the identities of things, and of their relationships, is as important as the harmonious combination of the shapes these things make when projected by a lens onto a flat surface. Starting from this premise, and in elegant and incisive prose, Jerry Thompson in Truth and Photography explores the many-leveled relationship between seeing and thinking. The ... Read more
Pictures made by a lens are inextricably linked to the real world—the world the photographer not only sees but lives in and thinks about. The most ambitious photographs (in an earlier time one might confidently have said the greatest photographs) recognize that an understanding of the identities of things, and of their relationships, is as important as the harmonious combination of the shapes these things make when projected by a lens onto a flat surface. Starting from this premise, and in elegant and incisive prose, Jerry Thompson in Truth and Photography explores the many-leveled relationship between seeing and thinking. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635394
SKU
V9781566635394
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About Jerry L. Thomson
Jerry L. Thompson has been a working professional photographer since 1973. He studied at the University of Texas and at Yale, has held Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and has been photographer in residence in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His pictures may be found in the permanent collections of major American museums. His other books include ... Read more
Reviews for Truth and Photography
Beautifully composed...unique in the entire literature on photography, at least as far as I am acquainted with it.
Hilton Kramer In this welcome book he uses his decades of practical knowledge to analyze what it means to engage the world through a camera.
Richard B. Woodward, DoubleTake The graceful prose, exactness and rigor of observation, and many allusions ... Read more
Hilton Kramer In this welcome book he uses his decades of practical knowledge to analyze what it means to engage the world through a camera.
Richard B. Woodward, DoubleTake The graceful prose, exactness and rigor of observation, and many allusions ... Read more