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Photography and the Art of Chance / Robin Kelsey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) : 9 color illustrations, 57 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674426177
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770 23
LOC classification:
  • TR642 .K445 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674426177

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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