Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts; and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in higher education and for introductory college courses; this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.Individual chapters cover:Key debates in photographic theory and historyDocumentary photography and photojournalismPersonal and popular photographyPhotography and the human bodyPhotography and commodity culturePhotography as artThis revised and updated fifth edition includes:New case studies on topics such as: materialism and embodiment; the commodification of human experience; and an extended discussion of landscape as genre.98 photographs and images; featuring work from: Bill Brandt; Susan Derges; Rineke Dijkstra; Fran Herbello; Hannah Houml;ch; Karen Knorr; Dorothea Lange; Chrystel Lebas; Susan Meiselas; Lee Miller; Martin Parr; Ingrid Pollard; Jacob Riis; Alexander Rodchenko; Andres Serrano; Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.Fully updated resource information; including guides to public archives and useful websites.A full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography.Contributors: Michelle Henning; Patricia Holland; Derrick Price; Anandi Ramamurthy and Liz Wells.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is a great help and it helps me understand a lot better ...By CustomerSo informational! This is a great help and it helps me understand a lot better how to construct and deconstruct a play. The instructions are clear and answers several questions I had been pondering. Examples are everywhere and provides you with a lot of readings that should be done and people to look up and study. So helpful!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An excellent book for the amateur playwrightBy R. BurfordAn excellent book for the amateur playwright. This was recommended to me from a former director of mine and was written by his former professor. I am glad I bought it and I highly recommend to anyone starting out. This is better than the book I just had to use for my college playwrighting course.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Road Map for the BeginnerBy Rachel Smith ManriqueThis is a good college textbook on playwriting for the beginner. The chapters cover action; conflict; character; dialogue; writing from life; writing from a source; special exercises to expand ones skills; writing a one-act play and marketing plays.The feature that sets it apart from other books on the subject are the many excerpts from plays; most of which were written by Halls own students. The quality of these excerpts speaks highly of his teaching gifts. One of them; an entire one-act play by Jerome Hairston titled "Cable Man"; deserves special mention.The appendix; titled "Classroom Procedures;" is written for the instructor. It provides; for example; the relative merits of having authors read their own plays vs. assigning parts to classmates.
