{"product_id":"b0b5fn3ct5","title":"What Photography Is","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn  What Photography Is , James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling  What Painting Is . In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's  Camera Lucida , Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54230929441131,"sku":"YSL26231","price":24.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/31J9Gljq_8L._SY1500.jpg?v=1792833385","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0b5fn3ct5","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}