Photography and Philosophy – Essays on the Pencil of Nature

Scott Walden is Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy Department at New York University. His interest in photographic theory emerges from his training in philosophy and his practice of photography. His philosophical work has been published in the British Journal of Aesthetics, and his photographic work in his recent book Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland's Resettled Communities (2003).

Acknowledgments. List of Figures. Contributors. Introduction (Scott Walden, New York University). 1. Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism (Kendall L. Walton, University of Michigan). 2. Photographs and Icons (Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston). 3. Photographs as Evidence (Aaron Meskin, University of Leeds and Jonathan Cohen, University of California, San Diego). 4. Truth in Photography (Scott Walden, New York University). 5. Documentary Authority and the Art of Photography (Barbara Savedoff, City University of New York). 6. Photography and Representation (Roger Scruton, University of Buckingham). 7. How Photographs "Signify": Cartier-Bresson's "Reply" to Scruton (David Davies, McGill University). 8. Scales of Space and Time in Photography: "Perception Points Two Ways" (Patrick Maynard, University of Western Ontario). 9. True Appreciation (Dominic Lopes, University of British Columbia). 10. Landscape and Still Life: Static Representations of Static Scenes (Kendall Walton, University of Michigan). 11. The Problem with Movie Stars (Noel Carroll, Temple University). 12. Pictures of King Arthur: Photography and the Power of Narrative (Gregory Currie, University of Nottingham). 13. The Naked Truth (Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University). Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.