En este libro, su autor, Stephen Shore, analiza la fotografía desde diferentes aspectos. Desde su aspecto físico como algo en papel que guardamos, mostramos, archivamos… análisis de como vemos una fotografía, de como la leemos, para entrar después en lo que puede significar una fotografía para nosotros y lo que nos transmite.
El libro esta lleno de ejemplos del propio autor, famoso por sus imágenes inexpresivas de los Estados Unidos, además de otros fotógrafos de renombre. Acompañado de cada fotografía o conjunto de ellas nos aporta unos breves textos alrededor de una idea, un concepto, al cual el autor da algunas vueltas. Creando un libro peculiar del cual he disfrutado enormemente su lectura.
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In The Nature of Photographs, Stephen Shore explores ways of understanding and looking at all types of photographs – from iconic images to found pictures, negatives to digital files. Based on Shore’s many years of teaching photography at Bard College, New York State, this book serves as indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in more informed way.
As well as a selection of Shore’s own work, The Nature of Photographs contains images from throughout the history of photography, from works by the fathers of photography such as Alfred Stieglitz and Walker Evans to that of artists wokring with the medium today such as Collier Schorr and Thomas Struth. It covers a range of genres, suchs as street photography, fine art photography and documentary photography, as well as images by unknown photographers, be they in the form of an old snapshot or an aerial photograph taken as part of a geographical survey. Together with his clear, intelligent and accessible text, Shore uses these works to demosntrate how the world in fornt of the camera is transformed into a photograph.
