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...

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1. Verfasser: Kelsey, Robin Earle 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. and London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung: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 modern world
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:398 S., [4] Bl. zahlr. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:9780674744004

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