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# The Photograph (Oxford History of Art)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Superb, Powerful & Economically Written (SUPERB imagery too)
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2009*

Most people would rather die than think - and, indeed, they do.  - Bertrand RussellI AM aware of some of the panning going on against this book in the USA - the same sort of panning that one can see frequently happening against Sontag's On Photography, which is ABSOLUTELY one of the most direct and succinct meditations on the medium I have yet seen. Precisely WHY it is that Americans seem to take such an anti-intellectual approach to these things is a bit beyond me. There seems to be, however, two distinct places from which persons unnamed approach thinking about the photograph (not totally unlike the two categories established at the start of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) - the 'Ansel Adams Classicists' and the 'Marxist Empiricists'. The first school considers any psychological inspection of the photograph an all-out assault on the sanctity of the soul and fertile hand of the artist-genius.  To explore the production of art-objects within an intellectual, social and political framework is not just offensive - it's downright 'off the map'! Granted - there IS a culture of persons who subscribe to the Frankfurt School and October Magazine but don't understand it. And hell yeah - they give the 'art' crowd a bad name. But that's REALLY not what's going on here - please trust me. If you'd like to be a little more convinced of this please see the corresponding review on amazon's UK sister site. You'll find nothing but praise for this little ditty there.For me - this book was clearly written and the thoughts expressed inside extremely well organized. I found it valuable, provocative and fruitful. A deeply worthy investment for those who are open to the idea of reframing existing knowledge in a larger and more sociably responsible way. The choice of phtoographs in this book was superb, I thought. A straight-up who's who of the more radical 'contemporary artist' oriented branch of the medium - the trailblazers from decades past - the people who made the starn twins and jeff wall and struths and others possible in the first place. If you want to cultivate a deep understanding of the photograph and it's importance in the world of art -especially contemporary art - this book is REQUIRED reading! Do your brain a favor and pick up a copy - and see some of the most powerful art of the 20th century while you're at it.

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    A Defense
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2007*

In defense of Mr. Clarke I offer the following: Photography is one of the most philosophically difficult art forms.  Sure, one can apply similar aesthetic concepts and ideas--both formal and conceptual--to the photograph that one can to paintings and sculpture, but there are ideas that set the photograph apart from these other media.  This is what people like Clark and Michael Fried are trying to do in their approach to photography.  And, apropos of Oxford (especially this series), this is, after all, a scholarly work; not a survey of the coolest photographs of the last forty years.  You cannot fault the book or the writer for not doing what you want it or him to do.  That being said, the History of Art series by Oxford is precisely where one should go should one choose to ask the "whys" of art--not the who's, the what's or the how's.  And, I'm sorry, but "why" questions and answers typically do not suppose a leisurely read.  This is not to exalt these questions, nor denigrate the others, only to elucidate the playing field.

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    Great Book
  

*by A***D on Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2021*

Excellent book. Reading for History of Photography at UNM currently and really explains the photo and photography in an engaging and informational way. Easy and good reading.

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