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Criticizing Photographs An Introduction to Understanding Images 6th Edition by Terry Barrett ISBN 9781000182361 1000182363

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Author(s): Terry Barrett

Edition: 6

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Year: 2020

Language: english

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ISBN 10: 1000182363
ISBN 13: 9781000182361
Author: Terry Barrett

Emphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this fully updated sixth edition offers consequential ways of looking at images from the perspectives of photographers, critics, theoreticians, historians, curators, and editors. It invites informed conversations about meanings and implications of images, providing multiple and sometimes conflicting answers to questions such as: What are photographs? Should they be called art? Are they ethical? What are their implications for self, society, and the world? From showing how critics verbalize what they see in images and how they persuade us to see similarly, to dealing with what different photographs might mean, the book posits that some interpretations are better than others and explains how to deliberate among competing interpretations. It looks at how the worth of photographs is judged aesthetically and socially, offering samples and practical considerations for both studio critiques for artists and professional criticism for public audiences. This book is a clear and accessible guide for students of art history, photography and criticism, as well as anyone interested in carefully looking at and talking about photographs and their effects on the world in which we live.

Criticizing Photographs An Introduction to Understanding Images 6th Edition Table of contents:

1 About art criticism

Critics are writers

Definitions of criticism

Sources of criticism

Kinds of criticism

The backgrounds of critics

Stances toward criticism

Relations between critics and artists

Studio critiques and art criticism

Criticizing criticism

The value of criticism

2 Theorizing photographs: What are they? Are they true? Are they ethical? Are they art?

Photography theory and practice

Premodernism, modernism, postmodernism, and society

Modemist conceptions of photography

Postmodernist conceptions of photography

Ontological concerns: What is a photograph?

Epistemological concerns: Are photographs true?

Realist and conventionalist theories of knowledge and photography

Photographs, truth, and credibility

Analog and digital manipulations of photographs

Photography, censorship, and control

Ethical concerns: Are photographs moral?

Marxist theory and ethical photography

Feminist theory and ethical photography

Key ideas propel feminist thinking and performance

Multicultural theory and ethical photography

Queer theory and ethical photography

Postcolonial theory and ethical photography

Aesthetic concerns: Is photography art?

Photography, science, and art

Pictorialism and purism

Conclusion

3 Describing photographs: What do I see?

Defining description

A review of Richard Avedon’s “In the American West”

Describing subject matter

Describing form

Describing medium

Describing style

Comparing and contrasting

Providing internal and external sources of information

Describing, interpreting, and judging

The importance of describing

Principles for describing photographs

4 Interpreting photographs: What does it mean?

Two exemplary interpretations

About interpretation

To interpret

The objects of interpretations

Interpretive claims and arguments

Interpretive perspectives

Three interpretations of Eleanor

More interpretive strategies

Combinations of interpretive approaches

“Right” interpretations

Interpretations and the artist’s intent

Interpretations and feelings

The community of interpreters

5 Types of photographs

Categories of photographs

Newer categories that require justifications

Descriptive explanatory photographs

Interpretive photographs

Ethically evaluative photographs

Aesthetically evaluative photographs

Theoretical photographs

The categories are overlapping

6 Photographs and contexts

Internal context

Original context

External context

External contexts and connotations

Interpretation of Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (“Surveillance”) with contextual information

“Surveillance” and internal context

“Surveillance” and original context

“Surveillance” and external context

Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (“Surveillance”) and the categories

Descriptive explanatory photographs

Interpretive photographs

Ethically evaluative photographs

Aesthetically evaluative photographs

Theoretical photographs

The interpretive process: A summary

Principles for interpreting photographs

7 Judging photographs: Is it good?

Examples of judgments

Positive judgments

Negative judgments

Opposing judgments

Judgments, reasons, and criteria

Different criteria

Realism

Expressionism

Formalism

Other criteria

Choosing among criteria

Differing judgments

Judgments are arguments

Reappraisals

Judgments and preferences

Intentionalism and judgments

Judgments of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs

Conclusion

Principles for judging photographs

8 Writing and talking about photographs

Writing about photographs

Observing and taking notes

Quick-writes and careful-writes

Students’ interpretive writings

Judging photographs

Writing criteria statements

Three student essays about Immediate Family by Sally Mann

Writing an artist’s statement

Processes of writing

Talking about photographs

Studio critiques

Kinds of critiques

Intentionalist critiques

Descriptive critiques

Interpretive critiques

Judgmental critiques

Theoretical critiques

Suggestions for contributing to successful critiques

Principles for effective critiques

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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