David Levi Strauss: Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography (Aperture)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597112712 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is chair of the graduate program in art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York.. At this transitional moment in the field of photography, how should we consider what is to come for the medium? Can its past and present practitioners help guide us, both as creators and as observers? David Levi Strauss--eminent author, critic and teacher--rises to the challenge of these questions and more in "Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography." In the course of 25 essays, some of which appear for the first time in this volume, Strauss discusses the work of artists who provoke us with revealing, clear-eyed investigations of the ostensibly patent world in front of us, and others who transport us to new realms, poetic and unreal--creative minds ranging from Frederick Sommer, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama and Joseph Beuys to contemporary photographers Sally Mann, James Nachtwey, Susan Meiselas, Tim Davis and many others. Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. Published in the "Aperture Ideas" series, "Words Not Spent Today" is an incisive exploration of photography's changing role as a tool of evidence an
I can think of none in this field I would rank ahead of him in terms of his knowledge, his seriousness, his adventure, and the power of his writing.--Arthur Danto"Arthur Danto" (05/31/2014)In the night by his intelligence and compassion, David Levi Strauss talks about what has been forgotten, what is being systematically erased, and what we need to remember for tomorrow.--John Berger"John Berger" (05/31/2014)He is photography's troubled conscience.--Luc Sante"Luc Sante" (05/31/2014) . David Levi Strauss is an art critic of exceptional quality and depth
Five Stars great book.. Good and Meaningful Essays from A True Master A series of provocative and fascinating essays on photography, photographers, and some of their issues. David Levi-Strauss is one of the more thoughtful people in photography and turns his deep ideas into straight forward readable and most importantly, understandable writing. Always good for a new insight or slant on some issue, I try hard to not miss the things he write3s.
David Levi Strauss is the author of From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual (2010); Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture, 2003); and Between Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (1999, updated in 2010 with a prolegomenon by Hakim Bey). Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003 and receive