Paper Graveyards by Eduardo Cadava - ISBN: 9780262046046
Hardcover
Unlock the secrets of images: A guide to visual literacy.

Paper Graveyards

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  • Hardcover

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    2 November 2021

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Summary

A generously illustrated training manual for reading images, discussing work by Felix Nadar, Roland Barthes, Fazal Sheikh, Susan Meiselas, and others.

Paper Graveyards is neither a work of traditional art history nor one of literary criticism. It is not strictly a history of ideas either, notwithstanding its very obvious erudition. Rather, in drawing upon all of these methods and approaches—and with extraordinary attention to language and style—Cadava’s writing examines the s…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262046046
ISBN-10:0262046040
Author:Eduardo Cadava
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:2 November 2021
Weight:567g
Dimensions:230mm x 150mm
About The Author

Eduardo Cadava

Eduardo Cadava is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light- Theses on the Photography of History and Emerson and the Climates of History, and the coeditor of Who Comes after the Subject?, Cities without Citizens, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He also has introduced and cotranslated Nadar’s memoir, Quand j’etais photographe, published as When I Was a Photographer.

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