Why Photography Matters

by Jerry L. Thompson

Book Overview

A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.

Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works--not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. He constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529017
• ISBN13: 9780262529013
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher