A box of photographs - Roger Grenier
KORTE INHOUD
Most attempts to generalize about photography as a medium run up against our experience of the photographs themselves. We live with photos and cameras every day, and philosophies of the photographic image do little to shake our intimate sense of how we produce photographs and what they mean to us. In this book that is equal parts memoir and intellectual and cultural history, French writer Roger Grenier contemplates the ways that photography can change the course of a life, reflecting along the way on the history of photography and its practitioners. Unfolding in brief, charming vignettes, A Box of Photographs evokes Grenier’s childhood in Pau, his war years, and his working life at the Gallimard publishing house in Paris. Throughout these personal stories, Grenier subtly weaves the story of a lifetime of practicing and thinking about photography and its heroes—Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, Alfred Eisenstaedt, George Brassaï, Inge Morath, and others. Adding their own insights about photography to the narrativ...
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2013Uitgever: University of Chicago Press109 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226308316ISBN-13: 9780226308319Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Roger Grenier: A box of photographs. 2013, University of Chicago Press, 109 pp., ills., Hardcover with DJ.
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