Howarth, S. (2005) Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs. London: Tate Publishing.
Singular Images is a lively inquiry into the value of analyzing individual photographs, and it persuasively encourages the reader to engage at length and in depth with one remarkable piece at a time. With its broad scope and diverse range of issues, it can also be read as an informal--and thoroughly entertaining--introduction to art photography.Read and reflect upon the chapter on Diane Arbus in Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs by Sophie Howarth (2005, London: Tate Publishing). This is out of print but you may be able to find it in your local university library: some of the chapters are available as pdfs online.Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s.
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Batchen, G. (no date b) Ere the Substance Fade: Photography and Hair Jewellery in Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images. Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart. Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart.
A downloadable pdf of a long article on Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron. enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.. Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs. ed. Julian Baggini: New British Philosophy. ed. Ben Rogers: Is Nothing Sacred.
Tiger Moth takes on some of the world s baddest bugs, but that s nothing compared to tackling the times table Follow this insect ninja as he learns one lesson and then teaches his enemies a few of his own.
Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs. This is highly readable and very enjoyable. The book consists of eleven essays, all by different people, on different photographs from throughout the history of photography, in chronological order. The choices are varied and no two photographs are that similar to one another.
My book Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide (I wanted to call it The Four Habits of Highly Effective Philosophy Students, but my publisher wouldn't let me), discusses all of these. There is an extract from the book available here.
The Rhetoric of the Image. A discussion of Roland Barthes’ use of semiotics to decode visual communication. An introduction to the science of signs. How they can take the form of words, visual images and sounds. Saussure’s categories of the signifier and the signified.
Write an essay of 1,000 words on an image of your choice. The image can be anything you like, from a famous art photograph to a family snapshot, but please make sure that your chosen image has scope for you to make a rigorous and critical analysis.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Write an essay of 1,000 words on an image of your choice. The image can be anything you like, from a famous art photograph to a family snapshot, but please make sure that your chosen image has scope for you to make a rigorous and critical analysis.
The pamphlet 'Picturing Philosophers' which is based on a tour of philosophers' portraits in London's National Portrait Gallery (including paintings of Hobbes, Locke, and Mill) is available as a pdf here: Download Picturing Philosophers.
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Images of Dublin: A Time Remembered Author: Bill Doyle. Like Robert Doisneaus Paris, Bill Doyles Dublin is a defined milieu. In these photographs that span half a century, from the 50s to 90s, Doyle gives us a composite view of a city and its inhabitants, capturing the spirit of a time and place, a pre-boom Dublin still haunted by the ghosts of history.
Loren Eiseley was a rare sort of intellectual, adept across multiple disciplines and capable of capturing the most puzzling scientific phenomenon of his day in lyrical and crystalline prose that nonscientists could appreciate. The Library of America and editor William Cronon have recently enshrined his Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos in a monumental two-volume set that.
The Kowloon Walled City was a singular Hong Kong phenomenon: 33,000 people living in over 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, built without the contributions of a single architect, ungoverned by Hong Kong's safety and health regulations, covering one square city block in a densely populated neighborhood near the end of the runway at Kai Tak airport.