Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images

Terry Barrett

ISBN 10: 0767411862 / ISBN 13: 9780767411868

Published by McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 1999

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Synopsis:

"Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing.

About the Author: Terry Barrett is a Professor of Art Education at Ohio State University. He holds M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Ohio State University in Art Education with a concentration in Photography. He is the author of Criticizing Photographs, of Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, of Talking about Student Art, and the editor of a volume entitled Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism. He has also served as the senior editor of the research journal, Studies in Art Education. Professor Barrett has been a Visiting Scholar to The Getty Educational Institute for the Arts in Los Angeles, CA and a Visiting Scholar of Education at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to ...
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
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