Waterstones Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus
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Price: £14.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13, 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Red Ceiling, 1973)? In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern photography. Choosing 100 key photographs - with particular emphasis on the last twenty years - she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. In doing so, she brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred, overexposed or 'badly' composed. The often controversial works discussed in this book play with our expectations of a photograph, our ingrained tendency to believe that it is telling us the unadorned truth. Jackie Higgins's book proves once and for all that there's much more to the art of photography than just pointing and clicking.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780500290958
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ISBN: 9780500290958
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Author: ZeitGhoul (music is my sanctuary)
Rating: 5
Review: A book Ive been meaning to grab and have by my side for a long while - a great one for quick reads - randomly pick a page - an essential for a young Photography student Id say - it reads how the old 'Art Book' should have for me - a bit more insightful about the artists - and contains alot of the contemporary practitioners which will come up in most Art Students / Photographers investigations and researches............(also alot of my fave artists in there). Each page gives you nice thoughtful starters about the artists work and helps also to fill any gaps you might have in recent developments in the Photography world in a fun and insightful way - will not date for a while as most the artists carefully chosen are either very influential or very contemporary still (its now Jan 2017).........
Author: Ian Moss
Rating: 2
Review: This isn't going to help you take photographs - in focus or not. It isn't going to teach you anything about photography really. Although it purports to be about post-modern art, it simply lacks any depth or substance, and often looks as if the words have simply been lifted out of context. Such and such used a strobe to .... No. No he didn't. He used a flashgun. No-one called it a strobe. Many of the comments are jarring in their anachronism or their lack of scientific understanding of the subject. But, then again, this isn't for scientists, or even photographers. This is a blaggers guide to conceptual photography written for English and Media teachers to impress their friends and students at dinner parties. A 'guide' for people who wouldn't know a aperture from their elbow, but want to look like they do. Some of the images are very clever, but you need to know the back-story to appreciate how clever they are. You can't simply appreciate the image - that's not the point. You have to be complicit in the agenda - and that agenda is highly elitist. Don't get the images? Think they're boring (a lot of the are really boring)? Then you clearly do not understand about modern photography. It's not about the image - it's all about the pretension that you can see something that the plebs can't see!
