Photography and the Art of Chance / / Robin Kelsey.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 p.) :; 9 color illustrations, 57 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. William Henry Fox Talbot and His Picture Machine
- 2. Defining Art against the Mechanical, c. 1860
- 3. Julia Margaret Cameron Transfigures the Glitch
- 4. The Fog of Beauty, c. 1890
- 5. Alfred Stieglitz Moves with the City
- 6. Stalking Chance and Making News, c. 1930
- 7. Frederick Sommer Decomposes Our Nature
- 8. Pressing Photography into a Modernist Mold, c. 1970
- 9. John Baldessari Plays the Fool
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index