Showing 1-20 of 226
Books on Photography > Criticism
-
1.
By
Susan Sontag
[Paperback 2010]
350
262
(25% OFF)
19 new & used from sellers starting at 
865
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
4-5 days
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In... more
-
2.
By
Fred Ritchin
[Paperback 2010]
1,143
892
(22% OFF)
12 new & used from sellers starting at 919
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
A fascinating look at the perils and possibilities of photography in a digital age. After Photography examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on cell phones to the widespread use... more
-
3.
By
Liz Wells
[Paperback 2009, 4th Edition]
2,199
2,177
(1% OFF)
24 new & used from sellers starting at 2,944
Available.
Ships Free to India in
15-18 days
Photography: A Critical Introduction provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing and its personal and cultural historical significance. Chapters cover key debates and theorists; the documentary role of the camera; the popular and personal with attention to the family album; advertising and commodity culture; photography as fine... more
-
4.
By
Todd Gustavson
[Hardbound 2009]
Available.
-
5.
By
Christopher Pinney
[Paperback 1998, 2nd Edition]
Available.
A wedding couple gazes resolutely out at the viewer from the wings of a butterfly, a commemorative portrait of a deceased boy surrounded by rose petals - such moving and quiet images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic Christopher Pinney explores in Camera Indica: The... more
-
6.
[Paperback, 1st Edition]
445
365
(18% OFF)
5 new & used from sellers starting at 375
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
4-5 days
This book clearly discusses the five fundamental aspects of digital image processing namely, image enhancement, transformation, segmentation, compression and restoration. Presented in a simple and lucid manner, the book aims to provide the reader a sound and firm theoretical knowledge on digital image processing. It is supported by large number... more
-
7.
By
Vidya Dehejia
[Paperback 2006]
2,292
1,719
(25% OFF)
10 new & used from sellers starting at 3,620
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
4-5 days
During the days of the British Raj, India was at the vanguard of the photography explosion, and early Indian and British photographers strove to document and reveal its landscape, people, cultures, and architecture. Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal, for example, straddled both worlds--that of the British Raj and that of... more
-
8.
By
Bronwyn Griffith ,
Francois Brunet ,
Mick Gidley
[Hardcover 2007]
2,808
2,302
(18% OFF)
5 new & used from sellers starting at 3,064
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
As American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the U.S. government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. "Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880" presents memorable glass-plate photographs fr... more
-
9.
By
Kate Sampsell Willmann ,
Alan Trachtenberg
[Hardbound 2009]
3,209
13 new & used from sellers starting at 4,012
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
-
10.
By
Robert Adams
[Paperback 1996]
879
17 new & used from sellers starting at 888
Available.
Ships Free to India in
15-18 days
Photographs, selected essays, and reviews by Robert Adams This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photogra... more
-
11.
By
Michael Fried
[Hardcover 2008]
3,152
2,458
(22% OFF)
17 new & used from sellers starting at 2,429
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and th... more
-
12.
By
Ryuichi Kaneko ,
Ivan Vartanian
[Hardbound 2009]
4,298
3,352
(22% OFF)
20 new & used from sellers starting at 3,724
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
-
13.
By
Helen Ennis
[Paperback 2007]
Available.
With its moving landscapes and famously independent cultural traditions, Australia is uniquely suited to having its national narrative told through visual documentation. Helen Ennis gathers here a selection of photographs that recount the story of Austral... more
-
14.
By
Clive Scott
[Paperback 1999]
Available.
Language has always been central to the meaning and exploitation of photographic images. However, the various types and "styles" of language associated with different photographic genres have been largely overlooked. This book considers the nature of phot... more
-
15.
By
Iris Tillman Hill ,
Lauren Greenfield ,
Tom Rankin
[Paperback]
1,430
1,115
(22% OFF)
13 new & used from sellers starting at 511
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
"25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers showcases the work of twenty-five of America's most promising photographers under twenty-five years old or younger. Illuminating and sometimes startling, the collection introduces work by an emerging gene... more
-
16.
By
Geoffrey Batchen
[Paperback 1999]
1,948
1,520
(22% OFF)
9 new & used from sellers starting at 2,198
In Stock.
Ships Free to India in
5-7 days
In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientifi... more
-
17.
By
John Wood ,
John R Stilgoe
[Hardcover 1995]
Available.
Too often, photographic historians have given credit to the calotype for establishing our sense and standard of the photographic, when in reality it was the daguerreotype that first taught us how to see photographically, taking us beyond portraiture to a... more
-
18.
By
Daniel Spanke ,
Zofia Kulik ,
Peter Schlor
[Hardcover 2007]
Available.
Featuring photographic series by Zofia Kulik, Peter Schlor, Michael Schnabel, Ingolf Timpner and Adam Thompson, this small volume examines the color black--the shade of darkness, of evil, of mourning, the opposite of light, of color itself. Here, it is al... more
-
19.
By
Richard Ross ,
Dave Hickey ,
Eduardo Cadava
[Hardcover 2000]
3,564
19 new & used from sellers starting at 459
Available.
Ships Free to India in
15-18 days
All photographs are to some extent about light. The eighty-five stunning color photographs in this book are a masterful exploration not only of the light falling on objects or filling spaces but of the very act of seeing. Whether he is photographing in a... more
-
20.
By
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo ,
Gillian Nagler
[Hardcover 2000]
Available.
Two museum curators present the story of photography in Boston and the pivotal role its institutions, corporations, schools, and practitioners played in the development of photography as an art form. 60 duotones, 25 color. Winner, 2001 NEMA Publication... more
