Writing Pictures: Selected Essays, 1987 - 1993 by James Hugunin
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Writing Pictures: Selected Essays, 1987 - 1993 anthologizes 13 major essays of photographic criticism by James R. Hugunin, Associate Adjunct 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 Fixing a Shadow Exhibition
• Changing Chicago Exhibition
• Subjektive Fotographie
• Frederick Sommer's photographs
• John Tagg's Disputing Grounds
• Analysis of Photography of Prison Inmates
• Bob Saltzman's La Pinta collaborative project with Inmates