Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images

US: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Socia, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and th eory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant ped agogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barre tt so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theoriz ing. Moreover, Barrett's analytical categorization of photographs into ideal types including the aesthetically evaluative and the interpretive (to cite two examples) has provided readers with a highly original and useful way to think about how photographs are made to function in the world." Louis Kaplan, Southern Illinois University.