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LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS by A.D. Coleman

LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS

Animals

by A.D. Coleman

Pub Date: June 1st, 1995
ISBN: 0-8118-0418-6
Publisher: Chronicle Books

A follow-up to the Looking at Paintings book, this large, comely volume contains a full page photograph and one small inset on each spread. The relaxed and chatty mini-essays that accompany b&w and full-color pictures cover a range of photographic conceptshistorical, technical, and artisticlisted by their animal subject matter. These vary from William Wegman's famous dog Fay on roller skates to David Scharf's microphotograph that turns an ordinary flea into an imposing intergalactic creature. Drawn in by the intriguing photographs, readers painlessly are invited to consider a range of abstract concepts, from point-of-view to the relationships between objects. Rather than stopping to explain possibly unfamiliar terms, Coleman italicizes technical words that are defined in the glossary. A brief, beautifully informative introduction for all. (Nonfiction. 8-12)