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Title: Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings 1968-1978 by A. D. Coleman, Shelley Rice ISBN: 0-8263-1667-0 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book Of Essays On Photography I've Read
Comment: I wish I had read A. D. Coleman's "Light Readings" years ago when I was studying photography. I have no doubt I would have become a much better photographer than I am now, taking to heart his profound commentaries on photography when it became accepted finally as one of the fine arts. Not only was A. D. Coleman the first major photo critic in photography's history, his early essays set a literary and intellectual standard which few have attained. In this newly revised, updated edition of "Light Readings", Coleman offers us some fascinating remarks on the Museum of Modern Art and its pivotal role in shaping the direction of fine art photography, most notably through the personal tastes of John Szarkowski, its autocratic director of the photography department. In one of the unpublished essays now appearing in the current edition, Coleman offers a harsh criticism of a book regarded by some as an important collection of photographic criticism, written by a well known novelist and essayist. Those interested in reading some of the most important themes and issues confronting photography in the late 1960's to mid 1970's will find Coleman's book an invaluable resource. And yet, it is more than just an important first-hand history of photography, but a thoughtful, penetrating look at the medium by one of its most astute critics.
Rating: 5
Summary: From a review by Taylor Holliday, The Wall Street Journal
Comment: " . . . When [W. Eugene] Smith turned his activist attention to the mercury poisoning of the waters of Minamata, Japan, in the early '70s, then-New York Times photography critic A. D. Coleman wrote, 'It seeks to be, and succeeds in becoming, not a product but a process, a tool for change.' While some may take issue with aspects of Mr. Coleman's oeuvre of humanist criticism, none would deny that as this country's first and foremost photo critic he has made a singular contribution to the field, broadening both the definition and discussion of photography. " A collection of his writings from 1968-1978 called Light Readings has long been a must-read for anyone serious about photography, and has now been reissued in an expanded second edition."
--Taylor Holliday, The Wall Street Journal, December 4, 1998
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Title: Depth of Field: Essays on Photographs, Lens Culture and Mass Media by A. D. Coleman ISBN: 0826318169 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.02 |
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Title: Beauty in Photography : Essays in Defense of Traditional Values by Robert Adams ISBN: 0893813680 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Classic Essays on Photography by Alan Trachtenberg ISBN: 091817208X Publisher: Leete's Island Books Pub. Date: March, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Why People Photograph by Robert Adams ISBN: 0893816035 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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