{"product_id":"photography-theory-james-elkins-9780415977838","title":"Photography Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotography Theory\u003c\/em\u003e presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau in animated debate on the nature of photography. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhotography has been around for nearly two centuries, but we are no closer to understanding what it is. For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Some view it as a sign of bourgeois life, a kind of addiction of the middle class, whilst others see it as a troublesome interloper that has confused people's ideas of reality and fine art to the point that they have difficulty even defining what a photograph is. For some, the whole question of finding photography's nature is itself misguided from the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis provocative second volume in the Routledge \u003cem\u003eThe Art Seminar\u003c\/em\u003e series presents not one but many answers to the question what makes a photograph a photograph?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Elkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415977835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415977838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 6.32w x 0.87d","brand":"James Elkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946611638527,"sku":"9780415977838","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0066b3e0-a55a-4c81-995f-a98c4bf37a61.jpg?v=1681514129","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/photography-theory-james-elkins-9780415977838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}