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Here at last is a concise critical history of photography which explains by what criteria we can judge one photograph to be better than another, what is special about the photographic recording of images, what in fact is the essence of photography both in itself and in relation to other visual art forms. This brilliant study provides a unique guide to the critical issues through the examples of the greatest photographers in the world, from Fox Talbot, the father of photography, to the masters of today. 136 illus., 8 in color.
"Jeffrey is a fine writer and an excellent scholar, and his text bears ample proof to both." --Popular Photography
"It would be hard to name another general work on photography that manages to be so stimulating." --Art and Artists
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Carlos Villasenor
reviewed Photography on December 29, 2013
Photography
Jeffrey does an excellent job of distilling the connection between the different phases and places of photography's development as a form of art (both popular and "fine"), documentation, and communication. From early British pictorialism to travelogues to the ethnographies of pre-WWII Germany and Dust Bowl of America, and then on down through 60s and 70s street.
Given what this work is intended to be--a *concise* history--it's hard to criticize. There are many things that could have been treated in more detail, but that would be for a different book. Jeffrey does clearly have his own stance towards many of the theoretical approaches, but doesn't let it get in the way of writing a clear history. His biases and argument are more implicit than explicit.
Definitely recommended to anyone looking for an introduction to the history of photography as a cultural medium, rather than a technical one.
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