Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96116 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Synopsis
David Levi Strauss is a writer whose visual and intellectual sensibilities are both acute and expansive. His trenchant writings on photography and photographers have been collected for this volume from a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, Artforum, and The Nation. In Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, Strauss tackles subjects ranging from "Photography and Propaganda" to the imagery of dreams; from Sebastiao Salgado's epic social documents to the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. The timely issue of photographic legitimacy is addressed in the essay "Photography and Belief," and in "The Highest Degree of Illusion," Strauss discusses the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11.

Customer Reviews

Good food for thought.
This collection of essays offers several challenging lines of inquiry for anyone who is interested in the interaction of politics and photography. In particular looking at documentary photojournalism and the role it plays in societal understanding of political issues.

This is admittedly a potentially niche interest but for anyone studying media, politics or photography it gathers insight from both within and without the photographic community to shed light on the way pictures are perceived and to evaluate what contribution they make to political and societal change.

At times provocative and even highly confrontational, I would recommend this to anyone wanting to explore the relationship between the Photograph and the wider world.

"The eyes are organs for looking"
This book was bought for me for a present, and was left for a while until I began a photography course. I have also done a politics degree and this book is an excellent combination of philosophical musings and political facts. I referenced almost every article in different areas of my course. I particularly love the idea of belief and photography. Can we believe images that are not indexical?

politics, politics and yes photography
Introduced by Berger whose philosophy and aesthetic is shared by Levi Strauss. Insightful and revealing about the politics behind the photographers featured, a politics that is personal and well as social.