Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | TR 183 .S65 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 51380 | ||
Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | TR 183 .S65 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 51379 |
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image world -- A brief anthology of quotations.
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
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