Image & Imagination
Contributors: Martha Langford (Editor); Peter Feldstein (Translator)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: September 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780773529694
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Photographs: collections; Photography; History; Art; Photoessays & Documentaries; Criticism; History - General; Exhibitions; Imagination; Photographic criticism; Photography, Artistic
First sentence: As I write, I have propped up next to the computer screen a photograph by Walker Evans.
Description: "Whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore the crucial role of the imagination in photography from nineteenth-century studio portraiture to twenty-first-century digital innovations." "Drawing on the twenty-nine exhibitions of Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal 2005, Image & Imagination features the work of over sixty contemporary artists from Canada, Australia, the United States, France, England, Haiti, and Japan."--BOOK JACKET.