Writing Pictures: Case Studies in Photographic Criticism 1983-2012

Writing Pictures: Case Studies in Photographic Criticism 1983-2012Writing Pictures: Case Studies in Photographic Criticism 19832012 (2013) gathers thirty years of James R. Hugunin's photographic art criticism into one volume. It opens in the year he was named the first recipient of the Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in Photography, jointly funded by Boston's Photographic Resource Center and the National Endowment for the Arts. Opening with an introduction by Hugunin himself, the case

in the lineage of Musil

Hugunin's ludicakadroman

“In The Cryptic Reflex

pareidolia is the mind's habit of finding faces and figures in random pattern

all scheduling and accident and competing publicity machines

recurs throughout like a sequence in a Resnais film

a critical Festschrift edited by Eckhard Gerdes

after decades as one of America's most prolific photography critics and a long teaching run in the History of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

the three are one structure in fifteen parts

The narrative method is the one the whole cycle runs on: dense interior monologue

is the forty-eighth volume in the Journal of Experimental Fiction series

Scott and Arnold Skemer through Carolyn Chun