Four Arts of Photography : An Essay in Philosophy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (196 pages)
- New Directions in Aesthetics Series .
- New Directions in Aesthetics Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Author and Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Wonderment to Puzzlement -- Plumbago -- A Short History of Photography Theory -- The Dialectic Endures -- Chapter 2 How to Do Things with Theory -- Skepticism as Method -- Purity -- Honest Signals -- Depictively Expressed Thought -- Drop Through -- Representational Art -- Isolating the Arts of Photography -- Chapter 3 To Possess Other Eyes: The First Art -- Revelations -- Chapter 4 Thinking Through Photographs: The Second Art -- Photography in Conceptual Art -- Five Mimics -- Cast Photography -- Chapter 5 A New Theory of Photography -- Making and Taking -- I Am a Camera -- The New Theory -- Drawing in Photography -- The New Theory and the Third Art -- Chapter 6 Lyricism: The Third Art -- Channel Conditions -- The Purist's Challenge -- Photography Plugged and Unplugged -- Chapter 7 The Knowing Eye -- Chapter 8 Abstraction: The Fourth Art -- Three Routes to Abstract Photography -- Isolating Abstraction -- Philosophy Smothered in Beauty -- Chapter 9 Crosscurrents and Boundary Conditions -- Boundary Conditions -- Appendix: The Skeptic's Argument -- Doing Justice to the Art in Photography -- Four Thoughts about Four Arts of Photography -- The Uses of Philosophy -- Photography, Social Practices, and Flickr -- A Different Model of Art -- At the Boundaries of Photography -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.