Education Of A Photographer Pa

by Traub,Charles

• ISBN13: 9781581154504
• ISBN10: 158115450X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-06-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

This lively and idiosyncratic collection of writings from the diverse thinkings about photography will bring encouragement and insight to all of those engaged in lens-based media in the twenty-first century. From the early twentieth-century masters to the postmoderns and on to today's incisive visionaries, this thought-provoking book will navigate the reader through the varied landscape of photography, eloquently expressing what it means to be a photographer. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Charles H. Traub is chair of the graduate MFA program in photography, video, and related media at the School of Visual Arts. Former director of the Light Gallery in New York, he is president of the Aaron Siskind Foundation. He has written and edited many books, including Beach, Italy Observed, and In the Still Life. His work has been exhibited across the country and published in top magazines. He lives in New York City.


Steven Heller is a leading authority on design education and the editor of the Education Of series. The art director of the New York Times Book Review, he is also the chair of the graduate design program at the School of Visual Arts and the writer or editor of more than eighty books on graphic design. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword
Photo Literacy	x
Steven Heller
Introduction
Years of Teaching	xii
Charles H. Traub
Section One Reflections on the Medium: What It Means to Photograph
The Paths of Modern Photography (1928)	1	(6)
Alexander Rodchenko
Photography at the Crossroads (1951)	7	(5)
Berenice Abbott
Untitled (1952)	12	(11)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Camera Mind and Eye (1966)	23	(5)
Minor White
Worlds in a Small Room (1974)	28	(2)
Irving Penn
Interview with Lee Friedlander (1996)	30	(2)
David Harris
Colleagues (1996)	32	(4)
Robert Adams
Teaching Photography: Notes Assembled (2001) (excerpt)	36	(2)
Philip Perkis
A Fluttering Knuckleball: Lunch with Stephen Shore and Tim Davis (2004)	38	(4)
Stephen Shore and Tim Davis
Central America and Human Rights: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2000)	42	(6)
Ken Light
Pictures from Home (1992)	48	(3)
Larry Sultan
The Plaintiff Speaks (1994) (excerpt)	51	(9)
Clarissa Sligh
The Soul of the Image and Visual Literacy (2005)	60	(5)
Daile Kaplan
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1984) (excerpt)	65	(2)
Vilém Flusser
Interview with Vera Lutter (2003)	67	(9)
Peter Wollen
A Conversation with Jeff Wall (2000)	76	(6)
David Shapiro
Natura Pictrix (1997)	82	(7)
Peter Galassi and Vik Muniz
Section Two How Others See Them: Considering the Photographer
William Klein	89	(5)
Brian Palmer, from Klein Symposium Statement (1989)
Lisette Model	94	(2)
Max Kozloff, from New York: Capital of Photography (2002)
Diane Arbus	96	(4)
Shelley Rice, from "Essential Differences: A Comparison of the Portraits of Lisette Model and Diane Arbus" (1980)
Alexey Brodovitch	100	(6)
Kerry William Purcell, from Ballet (2002)
Aaron Siskind	106	(7)
Charles H. Traub, from Roadtrip (1989)
Garry Winogrand	113	(11)
Leo Rubinfien, from Some Reminiscences (2001)
Luigi Ghirri	124	(2)
Luigi Ghirri/Charles H. Traub, from Statement/A Remembrance (1999)
WRITERS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971)	126	(4)
Wendell Berry
Shots (1977)	130	(1)
Cythia Ozick
Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph (2004)	131	(2)
Dave Eggers
Section Three Finding an Audience: Working with the Professionals
THE LEGENDS
Alexey Brodovitch	133	(7)
Brodovitch on Photography (1961)
Helen Gee	140	(3)
Limelight (1997) (excerpt)
PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY: INTERVIEWS
The Privilege to Work for Artists	143	(2)
An Interview with Peter MacGill
Visualizing Martha	145	(5)
An Interview with Gael Towey
Documenting in the Twenty-First Century	150	(8)
An Interview with Robert Pledge
The Photo Book	158	(6)
An Interview with Yolonda Cuomo
Editing Visuals	164	(4)
An Interview with Elisabeth Biondi
The Artist in the Marketplace	168	(9)
An Interview with Charlotte Cotton
Section Four Guides for the Uneducated: Higher Education and Photography
History of Photographic Education with an Emphasis on Its Development in the United States (2005)	177	(8)
Nathan Lyons
Commitment (1962)	185	(3)
John Szarkowski
Valentine (2005)	188	(2)
Stephen Frailey
The Dos and Don'ts of Graduate Studies: Maxims from the Chair (1995)	190	(4)
Charles H. Traub
A Handy Kit for Do-It-Yourself Critics (1962)	194	(5)
Ralph Hattersley
Unprecedented Photography (1927)	199	(2)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
When a Student Asks (1956)	201	(2)
Minor White
A Brief List of Self-Assignments for Artists (2005)	203	(2)
Mary Virginia Swanson
SHARED WISDOM
Solving Problems (1979)	205	(3)
An Interview with Aaron Siskind
Learning from the Bauhaus (1979)	208	(2)
An Interview with Harry Callahan
The Narrative	210	(3)
An Interview with Gregory Crewdson
Remembering Life Through Photographs	213	(3)
An Interview with Randy West
The Medium as Subject	216	(2)
An Interview with Penelope Umbrico
Objects of Desire	218	(3)
An Interview with Sarah Charlesworth
A PHOTOGRAPHIC THESIS
AT/TENSION: The Essence of Portrait Photography (2005)	221	(2)
Rachael Dunville
Afterword	223	(1)
Adam B. Bell
Biographies	224	(11)
Index	235