Photography and the art of chance /
As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a m...
| Основен автор: | Kelsey, Robin, 1961- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Cambridge, Masschusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Съдържание:
- William Henry Fox Talbot and his picture machine
- Defining art against the mechanical, c. 1860
- Julia Margaret Cameron transfigures the glitch
- The fog of beauty, c. 1890
- Alfred Stieglitz moves with the city
- Stalking chance and making news, c. 1930
- Frederick Sommer decomposes our nature
- Pressing photography into a modernist mold, c. 1970
- John Baldessari plays the only game in town.