About the Author
Adam Bell is a photographer and writer. Coeditor of The Education of a Photographer, he has written for numerous publications, including Afterimage, The Brooklyn Rail, The Art Book Review,FOAM Magazine, photo-eye, and Paper Journal. He is currently on staff and faculty in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts.
Charles H. Traub is chair of the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts, and president of the Aaron Siskind Foundation. His many books include Dolce Via: Italy in the 80s, The Education of a Photographer, and In the Realm of the Circuit, and his writings have been published in Connoisseur, Fortune, Newsweek, Aperture, U.S. News & World Report, Afterimage, Popular Photography, American Photographer, and The New Yorker.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword - Adam Bell
Introduction - Charles Traub
Part 1. From the Lens
1. Photography Is (1961) - Arthur Siegel
2. Keep It Simple Stupid, Just Make a Good Picture: The Basics of Photography (2012) - Gerry Badger
3. Excerpt from A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads (2008) - Ken Schles
4. Photographs about Photographs (2010) - Adam Bell
5. On Books and Photography (2012) - Ofer Wolberger, Jason Fulford, and Adam Bell
6. Stillness, Depth, and Movement Reconnected (2012) - Robert Bowen
7. A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? (2010) - Susie Linfield
8. If You See Something, Say Something: Why We Need to Talk about and Teach Visual Literacy, Now (2014) - Marvin Heiferman
Part 2. Vision and Motion
9. Excerpt from Vision in Motion (1947) - László Moholy-Nagy
10. Stillness (2008) - David Campany
11. The Annihilation of Time and Space (2004) - Rebecca Solnit
12. On Editing and Structure (2002) - Wolf Koenig
13. Flickering Screens (2008) - Ai Weiwei
14. A Lecture (1968) - Hollis Frampton
15. Flatness/Depth. Still/Moving. Photography/Cinema. (2012) - Grahame Weinbren
16. HD Vision (2012) - Bob Giraldi, Ethan David Kent, Christopher Walters, Charles Traub, and Adam Bell
17. Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality (2007) - Tom Gunning
18. Seeing around the Edge of the Frame (2001) - Walter Murch
19. Sensorial Cinema: Conjectures/Conversations (2014) - Scott MacDonald
20. Reconquering Space and the Screen (2005) - Pipilotti Rist and Doug Aitken
21. Looking and Being Looked At (2014) - Shelly Silver and Claire Barliant
22. It’s about Time (2013) - Christian Marclay and Amy Taubin
Part 3. Old Medium/New Forms
23. Photography and the Future (2010) - Tom Huhn
24. Machine-Seeing (2012) - Trevor Paglen and Aaron Schuman
25. There Is Only Software (2011) - Lev Manovich
26. Google Street View: The World Is Our Studio (2011) - Lisa Kereszi
27. Exploring Options (2011) - Alec Soth and Charles Traub
28. On <img> (2014) - Charlie White
29. Sharing Makes the Picture (2012) - Barry Salzman
30. Posits and Questions (2014) - Fred Ritchin and Brian Palmer
31. Capture/Curate </> Touch/Play: Reality Is the New Fiction (2014) - Claudine Boeglin and Paul Pangaro
32. A Post-photographic Manifesto (2011) - Joan Fontcuberta (trans. Graham Thomson)
33. Feedback Manifesto (2010) - David Joselit
34. Ant!foto and the Antifoto Manifesto (2013) - Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
35. Creative Interlocutors: A Manifesto (1997) - Charles Traub
Notes
List of Contributors
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