Reading into Photography : Selected Essays, 1959-1980

This anthology contains twenty essays of photographic criticism by twenty-one authors. A wide range of photographic practices - historical, architectural, landscape, portraiture, documentary - are considered in the contexts of philosophy, psychology, literature, and visual art. Topics discussed include: photographic meaning, technology, authorship, representation, pictorialism, topographics, and critical pluralism. Includes artist's statement by Robert Adams. Biographical notes. 307 bibl. ref