Criticizing photographs
Subtitle: an introduction to understanding images
By: Terry Barrett
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Mayfield Pub. Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Mountain View, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780767411868
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Photographic criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1.; title: About Art Criticism --; title: Defining Criticism --; title: Sources of Criticism --; title: Kinds of Criticism --; title: The Backgrounds of Critics --; title: Stances Toward Criticism --; title: Relations Between Critics and Artists --; title: Criticizing Criticism --; title: The Value of Criticism -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Describing Photographs --; title: Defining Description --; title: Descriptions of Avedon's "In the American West" --; title: Describing Subject Matter --; title: Describing Form --; title: Describing Medium --; title: Describing Style --; title: Comparing and Contrasting --; title: Internal and External Sources of Information --; title: Description and Interpretation --; title: Description and Evaluation --; title: The Importance of Description to Readers -- -- Chapter 3.; title: Interpreting Photographs --; title: Defining Interpretation --; title: The Objects of Interpretations --; title: Interpretive Claims and Arguments --; title: Interpretive Perspectives --; title: Three Interpretations of Eleanor --; title: Other Interpretive Strategies --; title: Combinations of Interpretive Approaches --; title: "Right" Interpretations --; title: Interpretations and the Artist's Intent --; title: Interpretations and Feelings --; title: Interpretation, Meaning, and Personal Significance --; title: The Community of Interpreters -- -- Chapter 4.; title: Types of Photographs --; title: Categories of Photographs --; title: New Categories --; title: Descriptive Photographs --; title: Fxplanatory Photographs --; title: Interpretive Photographs --; title: Ethically Evaluative Photographs --; title: Aesthetically Evaluative Photographs --; title: Theoretical Photographs -- -- Chapter 5.; title: Photographs and Contexts --; title: Internal Context --; title: Original Context --; title: External Context --; title: External Contexts and Connotations --; title: Interpreting Barbara Kruger's Untitled ("Surveillance"), with Contextual Information --; title: "Surveillance" and Internal Context --; title: "Surveillance" and Original Context --; title: "Surveillance" and External Context --; title: Barbara Kruger's Untitled ("Surveillance"), and the Categories --; title: Descriptive Photographs --; title: Explanatory Photographs --; title: Interpretive Photographs --; title: Ethically Evaluative PHotographs --; title: Aesthetically Evaluative Photographs --; title: Theoretical Photographs --; title: The Interpretive Process: A Summary -- -- Chapter 6.; title: Evaluating Photographs --; title: Examples of Judgments --; title: Judgments and Reasons --; title: Judgments and Criteria --; title: Different Criteria --; title: Realism --; title: Expressionism --; title: Formalism --; title: Instrumentalism --; title: Other Criteria --; title: Choosing Among Criteria --; title: Differing Judgments --; title: Judgments Are Arguments --; title: Reappraisals --; title: Judgments and Preferences --; title: Intentionalism and Judgments --; title: The Objects of Judgments --; title: Judgments of Robert Mapplethorpe's Photographs --; title: Hilton Kramer's and Grace Glueck's Views of Mapplethorpe's Work --; title: Other Critics' Views of Mapplethorpe's Work -- -- Chapter 7.; title: Theory: Is It Art? --; title: Aesthetic Theory --; title: Theories and Critics --; title: Theories and Photographers --; title: Theories and Historians --; title: Theories and Curators --; title: A Survey of Theoretical Positions --; title: Realism and Conventionalism --; title: Modernism and Postmodernism --; title: Marxist Theory and Criticism --; title: Feminist Theory and Criticism -- -- Chapter 8.; title: Writing and Talking About Photographs --; title: Writing About Photographs --; title: Observing the Work and Taking Notes --; title: An Interpretive Paper --; title: An Evaluative Paper --; title: The Process of Writing --; title: Talking About Photographs --; title: Discussions of Art in the Presence of the Artist --; title: Studio Critiques