Truth and Photography
Subtitle: Notes on Looking and Photographing
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher; Ivan R. Dee
Published: November 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781566635394
Subjects: Photography & Photographs; Photography, Artistic; Photography; Realism; Photo Techniques; Criticism; History; Photography / Photo Essays; General; Philosophy; Realism in art
Description: "Jerry Thompson explores the many-leveled relationship between seeing and thinking. Truth and Photography reproduces in duotone twenty-three photographs - some as well known as any the medium has produced, some more obscure, and some never before published. Mr. Thompson uses them to illustrate his observations about pictures and picture-taking occasions. He is concerned not strictly with history or theory. He does not rely exclusively on his thirty-year experience as a working photographer, nor are his essays confined to the medium of photography. Rather, Mr. Thompson employs multiple perspectives, usually in the same essay and often on a single picture. His examinations are penetrating, sustained, allusive, and frequently thrilling. They represent not settled explanations but living thought."--Jacket.