Umfang:
1 online resource
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illustrations (black and white, and color).
ISBN:
9781003103875
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1003103871
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9781000211894
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1000211894
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9781000212846
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100021284X
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9781000211153
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1000211150
Serie:
Basics creative photography
Inhalt:
1. What is a photograph? -- Invention: the marriage of chemistry and optics -- Time and light -- Uses and applications -- The camera: an evolution -- Case study: Chuck Close -- 2. Reading the signs -- Where do meanings come from? -- Language: words, sounds and images -- Semiotics: the study of signs -- Ideology: ideas, practices and beliefs -- Case study: Anthony Barrett -- 3. Truth and lies -- What is `real'? -- Representation and reality -- Facts and fiction -- Case study: Thomas Hoepker -- 4. Identity -- People and portraits -- Signifying identity -- Looking -- The body -- Case study: Marc Garanger -- 5. Big Brother is watching you -- The modern world -- The bad, the mad and the `other' -- Surveillance society: the Panopticon -- Who is looking at whom? -- Public spaces-private lives -- Case study: Shizuka Yokomizo -- 6. Aesthetics -- But is it art? -- Photography cannot be art -- What is art? -- Photography as art-the history of an idea -- Into postmodernism -- Case study: Richard Billingham.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350022935
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1350022934
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350022935
Sprache:
Englisch
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