Description The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the Critical understanding of Photography through an in-depth discussion of Fifteen photographs and their contexts--historical, generic, biographical, and aesthetic.
About the Author Lyle Rexer is a writer, curator, critic, and columnist, as well as a core faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, and he has contributed to The New York Times , Art in America , Parkett , Damn Magazine , and Photograph Magazine ..
Looking at images by photographers such as Roland Fischer, Myoung Ho Lee, Zanele Muholi, and Ernest Cole, The Critical Eye addresses a wide range of issues involved in photography, from authorial self-consciousness to the role of the audience, and with every chapter it seeks to link the history of Photography to current practice.
Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works it is possible to Understand the history, development, and contemporary situation of photography.
Description The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the Critical understanding of Photography through an in-depth discussion of Fifteen photographs and their contexts--historical, generic, biographical, and aesthetic
