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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kelsey, Robin, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Photography, Artistic > Philosophy.
Chance in art.
Photographie artistique > Philosophie.
Hasard dans l'art.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY > History.
Chance in art
Photography, Artistic > Philosophy
Fotografie
Kunst
Zufall
Fotokonst > teori, filosofi.
Slumpen i konsten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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