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Author:   Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781119053170

ISBN 10:   111905317
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   04 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi Notes on Author and Contributors xii Preface xiii Wonderment to Puzzlement 1 How to Do Things with Theory 17 To Possess Other Eyes: The First Art 36 Thinking Through Photographs: The Second Art 48 A New Theory of Photography 65 Lyricism: The Third Art 87 The Knowing Eye 105 Abstraction: The Fourth Art 114 Crosscurrents and Boundary Conditions 125 Appendix: The Skeptic’s Argument 133 Comments Doing Justice to the Art in Photography 135 Diarmuid Costello Four Thoughts about Four Arts of Photography 147 Cynthia A. Freeland Notes 157 Index 174

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Dominic McIver Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Understanding Pictures (1996) and Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (2005), as well as books on computer art and the nature of art. His first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 124, which he used to document his family's migration from Scotland to Canada.

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