{"id":339,"date":"2008-09-02T00:28:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T00:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=339"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:21","slug":"questioning-photography-words-without-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2008\/09\/02\/questioning-photography-words-without-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning Photography: words without pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">A series of interesting articles on &#8220;photographic meaning&#8221; is now available from LACMA&#8217;s excellent photo blog &#8220;words without pictures&#8221; &#8212; this one from last November: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutpictures.org\/main.html?id=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Head-Times\"><span class=\"Head-Small\">Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All It Can Be?<\/span><\/span> by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD<\/a> mentions critic Michael Fried, whose upcoming book &#8220;Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before&#8221; (Yale University Press) critiques art photography since the Bechers.\u00c2\u00a0 The most recent &#8220;words w\/out pictures&#8221; article is on photo repetition; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutpictures.org\/main.html?id=258\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Picture You Already Know by SZE TSUNG LEONG.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of interesting articles on &ldquo;photographic meaning&rdquo; is now available from LACMA&rsquo;s excellent photo blog &ldquo;words without pictures&rdquo; &mdash; this one from last November: Qualifying Photography as Art, or, Is Photography All It Can Be? by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD mentions critic Michael Fried, whose upcoming book &ldquo;Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before&rdquo; (Yale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coollinks","category-philosophy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}