[Leica] How to better appreciate different kinds/styles of photography

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Awesome, thanks!  I don't know who's cool these days,
but 20 years ago I used to read Derida, Lacan, Kristeva,
etc. for breakfast :-)  Sounds challenging, but maybe I'll
give it  whirl.



Phil Swango wrote:

> Scott and Jeffery,
>
> If you mean photogaphy in the context of contemporary art, I would 
> check out
> David Campany's "Art and Photography", Phaidon Press, 2003 (ISBN
> 0714842869).  It can be a challenging read, depending on your taste for
> postmodern critical theory, but it's a very comprehensive survey of 
> the ways
> photography has been used to make art from about 1970 to the present.  
> The
> text is really excellent, the presentation is handsome, and best of 
> all (to
> me) is that Campany includes a huge number of the seminal essays by 
> others
> that have defined photographic critical theory, from Walter Benjamin in
> 1936, to the present.  Examples of the artists included are Lewis Baltz,
> Berndt and Hilla Becher, Chuck Close, Gregory Crewdson, Eggleston,
> Friedlander, Gursky, Heinecken, Canida Hofer, Barbara Kruger, Sally Mann,
> Mapplethorpe, Bill Owens, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, 
> Stephen
> Shore, J-P Witkin, etc., etc.  But try to look at a copy somewhere before
> you buy.  It may not be your cup of tea.  My daughter gave it to me after
> using it as a textbook for a photo history course when she was getting 
> her
> BFA.  It's absolutely one of my favorite books.
>

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