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Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images
Binding: Paperback
Author: Terry Barrett
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Average Rating: 3.5
Total Customer Reviews: 22
Our Price: $32.73
Sales Rank: 38779
Product Description
This brief text is designed to help both beginning and advanced students of photography better develop and articulate thoughtful criticism. Organized around the major activities of criticism (describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing), Criticizing Photographs provides a clear framework and vocabulary for students' critical skill development. The fourth edition includes new black and white and color images, updated commentary, a completely revised chapter on theory that offers a broad discussion of digital images, and an expanded chapter eight on studio critiques and writing about photographs, plus examples of student writing and critique.
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Product Review Summary: Criticizing Photographs I gave this book a low rating, not because of how well it was written or it's content but because it was a polar opposite to what I expected. My fault for misunderstanding the content although the title is misleading.
I bought this book with the expectation to improve my photographic technique by understanding what a professional photo critic and evaluator looks for in a photograph.
I felt that this book was more of a "how-to-be a professional photo critic" than a 'how-to-evaluate photographs" book.
The book was a bit too philosophical and esoteric for my needs.
Product Review Summary: How a picture is worth a thousand words. As a person interested in the history of photography as well as a serious photographer, I've found this book to be a great help in getting the most out of a photograph. Unlike the snap judgments of a photo club, the book explains a logical sequence of steps to understanding. I found it especially helpful in reviewing photographs which are hard to appreciate for aesthetic reasons. Highly recommended.
Product Review Summary: boring I had to buy this book for a class i was talking on tradional photography and I couldnt stand it, people over analyzing work it was a horrible bore. art is art
Product Review Summary: my experience I find it very hard to read.
I expected to find a book that explained how to critize photo work of other people.
Product Review Summary: A Useful Book on this Subject Recent reviews of Criticizing Photographs strike me as biased and off-base. Yes, Barrett discusses actual photographs with actual content (to which at least one reviewer seems to object), but that's the real world. Photographs have subjects and present content. For those of you who remember, Maplethorpe's photos did create a stir in and beyond the art world, and using them as an example in a book about art criticism is completely appropriate. Barrett also makes an effort to place photographic art in the larger context of the international art world, which also seems appropriate given its aims. The book is not perfect, and it is certainly not a "how-to" book on photography, but it has been and remains a competent introduction to photography criticism.
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