An Anthology of Photographic Criticism by James Hugunin

U-Turn Monograph Series #6 (web version 2011)
Theory/Criticism, 468 pages, 8.5 x 11 in.,

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Writing Pictures: Anthology of My Best Criticism, 1983 - 2011 by James Hugunin
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Writing Pictures: Anthology of My Best Criticism, 1983 - 2012

by James Hugunin

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Writing Pictures: Anthology of My Best Criticism, 1983 - 2011 anthologizes major essays and shorter reviews on photography by James R. Hugunin, Adjunct Full Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and winner of the 1983 First Place Award for the Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in Photography.

Topics covered:

  • Lou Stoumen's photo books
  • Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites and Puye Cliff Dwelling photographs
  • Andy Grundberg's Crisis of the Real
  • Hugunin's 1983 Reva and David Logan Award Winning Essay
  • John Baldessari's Retrospective
  • Richard Bolton's The Contest of Meaning & Carol Squiers's The Critical Image
  • The Art of Fixng a Shadow Exhibition
  • Changing Chicago Exhibition
  • Subjektive Fotographie
  • Frederick Sommer's photographs
  • John Tagg's Disputing Grounds
  • A Video Installation by Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke
  • Robert Smithson's Photoworks
  • Lewis Koch's Photobook and Installation
  • Miscellaneous Short Essays / Reviews