In this book, the author analyses part of the work of photography masters, such as Cartier-Bresson, Hine and Strand, detecting in each photography the central element that makes it unique. The common thread running through all these essays b"which hold a controversial and fruitful dialogue with Roland Barthesbs ideas- is the conviction that signification in a picture is determined by its composition, by the layout of objects, by the light b"and not exclusively by its analogy with reality.
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In this book, the author analyses part of the work of photography masters, such as Cartier-Bresson, Hine and Strand, detecting in each photography the central element that makes it unique. The common thread running through all these essays b"which hold a controversial and fruitful dialogue with Roland Barthesbs ideas- is the conviction that signification in a picture is determined by its composition, by the layout of objects, by the light b"and not exclusively by its analogy with reality.
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