| Description |
398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 fool |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy.
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Chance in art.
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| LC no. |
2014040717 |
| ISBN |
9780674744004 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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0674744004 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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