TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelsey,Robin
TI  - Photography and the Art of Chance
SN  - 9780674426177
AV  - TR642 .K445 2015eb
U1  - 770 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Chance in art
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Photography / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674426177?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674426177
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674426177/original
ER  -