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Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters

Writings on Photography

By (author) Vicki Goldberg
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Aperture, New York, United States
Published: 18th Apr 2005
Dimensions: w 148mm h 222mm d 23mm
Weight: 546g
ISBN-10: 1931788634
ISBN-13: 9781931788632
Barcode No: 9781931788632
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Vicki Goldberg, one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, is well known for her cogent and perceptive writing, which is regularly featured in such national publications as the New York Times, American Photographer, and Vanity Fair. Aperture's Light Matters gathers for the first time a selection of this remarkable author's essays and criticism, culled from her writings published over the past twenty-five years. Goldberg's take on photography is both insightful and encompassing: her subjects range from pop imagery to war journalism, from photo-booth portraits to manipulated digital imagery, from the "boredom" of voyeurism to the great preponderance of tragic photographs in the news. She brings new light to the work of the medium's "old masters," among them Walker Evans, Lotte Jacobi, and Lartigue, writing with equal acuity about contemporary trailblazers such as Bill Viola, Daido Moriyama, and Bastienne Schmidt. Goldberg also tackles provocative larger issues facing the medium, such as the potentially "transgressive" nature of photographs, and the camera's powerful role in a culture of commodification. Dismissing cliches and deftly negotiating the many diverging paths photography now follows, Goldberg demonstrates how to consider not just photographic images themselves, but their impact, and the meaning of that impact. Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters showcases a writer of great intelligence, wit, and insight, whose understanding of this multifarious and evolving medium is unsurpassed.

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"Though it has reportedly been dying for years, photography is out there reproducing faster than rabbits. Yet it is in danger from more quarters than mere liberty at the moment - from the possibility that digitization will discredit standard photographic practices altogether, from the media, from shrinking print outlets, and from a kind of interior malaise, perhaps due to getting fat without getting sassy.... Photography is far from dead, but the challengers are already in place, and fully armed." - Vicki Goldberg, From"