OCTOBER
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A Special Issue on Photography
OCTOBER , the quarterly journal
of theory and criticism of the arts,
devotes its spring issue to an
examination of p hotography
using the too ls of semiotics,
psychoanalysis, structuralism,
and h istorical analysis. Included
are chap ters from Nadar's My
Life as a Photographer, a cen tral
document in the history of
photography, here translated into
English for the first time.
Photographers discussed include
Brassai, Weston, L artigue, Fox
T albot, Muybridge, Evans,
Cameron, Smithson, Degas,
Nadar.
con tains:
Impromptus on Edward Weston: Everything in its Place
H oll is Frampton
Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image
Hubert Damisch
Opticeries
Jean Clair
Tracing Nadar
R osalind Krauss
Positive/ Negative: A Note on Degas's Photographs
Douglas Crimp
Time Exposure and Snapshot: the Photograph as Paradox
T h ierry de DUlle
Photography en abym e
Craig Owens
OCTOBER is published by MI T Press
for The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
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