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Seeing Beyond Sight
Tony Deifell
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Description for Seeing Beyond Sight
Hardback. For five years, Tony Deifell taught teenagers to take photographs. The students were blind. This book documents a program whose ambitious, seemingly contradictory premise led to new avenues of creative expression for these students. It demonstrates new ways for all of us to think about vision, art, and perception, and what it means to see. Num Pages: 128 pages, 140 black and white photos. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 191 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
For five years, Tony Deifell taught teenagers to take photographs. The students were blind. Unusual as the idea may seem at first, putting cameras in the hands of visually impaired children proved to be extremely fruitful-both for the photographers, who found an astonishing new means of self-expression, and for the viewers of their images, for whom this is an entirely new kind of dreamlike and intuitive creation. Even before you know that these pictures were taken by the blind, they are striking for their use of light and composition, and haunting in their chiaroscuro intensity. The photos are accompanied by ... Read more
For five years, Tony Deifell taught teenagers to take photographs. The students were blind. Unusual as the idea may seem at first, putting cameras in the hands of visually impaired children proved to be extremely fruitful-both for the photographers, who found an astonishing new means of self-expression, and for the viewers of their images, for whom this is an entirely new kind of dreamlike and intuitive creation. Even before you know that these pictures were taken by the blind, they are striking for their use of light and composition, and haunting in their chiaroscuro intensity. The photos are accompanied by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Chronicle Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
California, United States
ISBN
9780811853491
SKU
V9780811853491
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Ref
99-15
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