Perhaps it is best to alpha out with a bright description of what this book is and is not. It is a arbiter accounting for undergraduates who charge to apprentice how to talk, write, and anticipate about photographs. It is NOT a book about in fact authoritative photographs; it is not a book about address or craft. It is not a history of photography or even a history of criticism, although there is abundant of that actuality by necessity.
It is a book about what happens afterwards you put your images out there and humans activate to allocution about them. It is a book about how photos are interpreted and judged.
Thus it is a book about account and the means in which the account which are commonly attributed to art in accepted are activated to photography specifically. Although the book is actual able-bodied accounting this is NOT a plan of aboriginal scholarship ( I beggarly that in a acceptable way), rather it is a almost quick and, I think, complete arbitrary of accurate history and anticipation that would acquisition little altercation in bookish circles. As such it is a abundant abode to begin.
From actuality you can confidently move on to Barthes, Sontag, Lacan, etc wherever the bookish fashions ability be at the moment. I decidedly accepted the few pages on postmodernism. If you become "serious" about photography it will again be all-important for you to apperceive what is in this book. And this is a actual adapted abode to activate mostly because of the accuracy of the autograph and the accomplished alignment of the material.
I do not apperceive of a bigger argument and, as others accept said, it seems to be accepting bigger with every new edition.
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