Carmen Dalmau , art historian, teacher, critic and independent curator, teaches us in this essay to look carefully and frees photography from the weight that has conditioned it for so long.
Praise of the look is a rescue of the look against photography understood as a certificate of reality, as an archive of memory, as an eternal present, as writing with light or as a mere mechanical technique. As truth, as object. He positions photography as continuity with painting within the flow of art history, praising that gaze as essential to approach the medium, denying those litanies that are repeated over and over again to talk about photography.
The reader will discover, and will enjoy going through the pages of this book, that photography is not how they had been told until now . A journey in which each one, as a "looker", will arrive at a different destination and, first of all, unknown.
Author: Carmen Dalmau
Format: 13 x 21 cm
Binding: Rustic with flaps, sewn with vegetable thread and creased .
Pages: 120
Spanish Language
