Ghost Stories Stray Thoughts on Photography and Film

This book gathers writings by renowned artist and educator Pavel Buchler (b.1952), and focuses on the magic, spectral elements of photography and the moving image. These new versions of essays written between 1983 and 1998 consider such diverse artists as Martin Parr, Tracey Moffat, Craigie Horsfield, Rebecca Horn, and many others. Stylistically diverse -- ranging from academic to journalistic, from critical interpretation to poetic speculation -- the essays collected here chart the development of key critical approaches to recent developments within contemporary film, video, art, and photo criticism.Buchler, Pavel is the author of 'Ghost Stories Stray Thoughts on Photography and Film' with ISBN 9781901540079 and ISBN 1901540073.