Light readings
Subtitle: a photography critic's writings, 1968-1978
By: A. D. Coleman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Photographic criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1968. Latent image -- Paul Strand (I) -- Jerry Uelsmann (I) -- Christmas gift : “Harlem on my mind” -- Richard Kirstel (I) : “Pas de Deux” -- Critique -- 1970. James Van DerZee -- Roy DeCarava : “Thru black eyes” -- “Photography into sculpture”: sheer anarchy, or a step forward? -- Inside the museum, infinity goes up on trial -- Holography : a prophecy -- The horrors of Hiroshima -- Roger Minick : Delta West -- Robert Heinecken : A man for all dimensions -- Bruce Davidson : East 100th Street -- Duane Michals (I) : Sequences -- Richard Kirstel (II) : is this the Scopes Trial of photography? -- 1971. Jerry Uelsmann (II) : He captures dreams, visions, hallucinations -- Les Krims : Four Photographs That Drove a Man to Crime -- Fundi : the nuances of the moment -- Peter Bunnell : money, space, and time, or the curator as juggler -- Jan Van Raay : the crest of a tidal wave -- Photography and conceptual art -- Harvey Stromberg : the sneakiest show in town -- Diane Arbus (I) : the mirror is broken -- “I have a blind spot about color photographs” -- Larry Clark : Tulsa -- Danny Seymour : a loud song -- Michael Abramson : Palante -- More on color : readers speak out -- A manifesto for photography education -- 1972. Danny Lyon and Geoff Winningham : barred doors, bared mats -- Paul Strand (II) -- Bernadette Mayer : “memory” -- Thomas Barrow and Charles Gatewood -- Duane Michals (II) : the journey of the spirit after death -- Who will be the replacements? -- Bea Nettles -- Judy Dater -- Beuford Smith : he records the texture of black life -- Not seeing Atget for the trees -- Robert Frank : the lines of my hand -- Ed Ruscha (I) : “my books end up in the trash” -- Ed Ruscha (II) : “I’m not really a photographer” -- Van Deren Coke : the painter and the photograph -- Ansel Adams : let me make one thing perfectly clear -- Robert D’Alessandro : New York’s funky epiphanies -- Diane Arbus (II) : her portraits are self-portraits -- Bob Adelman and Susan Hall : down home -- 1973. Robert Delford Brown : an introduction -- Life [magazine] may have died, but photography lives on -- Ralph Gibson : deja-vu -- Minor White : octave of prayer (I) -- Minor White : octave of prayer (II) -- Michael Lesy (I) : Wisconsin death trip -- Must they “progress” so fast? -- Shouldn’t we be more concerned? -- “Photography : recent acquisitions” -- Clarence John Laughlin -- Bill Dane -- Emmet Gowin -- 1974. Julio Mitchel -- W. Eugene Smith : “Minamata” -- Michael Martone : dark light -- New Japanese Photography -- Paul Diamond -- Abigail Heyman and Imogen Cunningham -- “From today, painting is dead”: a requiem -- Art critics : our weakest link -- Reinventing photography -- 1975. My camera in the olive grove : prolegoxnena to the legitimization of photography by the academy -- Because it feels so good when I stop: concerning a continuing personal encounter with photography criticism -- 1976. Where’s the money? -- The indigenous vision of Manuel Alvarez Bravo -- On plagiarism -- “Violated” instants : Lucas Samaras and Les Krims -- Novel pictures: the photofiction of Wright Morris -- The directorial mode: notes toward a definition -- 1977. Humanizing history: Michael Lesy’s real life -- Visual recycling: Irving Penn’s “street material” -- Lament for the walking wounded -- 1978. No future for you? -- Speculations on the next decade in photography education.