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Inadvertent images : a history of photographic apparitions
- Title
- Inadvertent images : a history of photographic apparitions / Peter Geimer ; translated by Gerrit Jackson.
- Author
- Geimer, Peter
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jackson, Gerrit
- Description
- 234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the medium, as well as accidental images that occur through photo-like means, such as the image of Christ on the Shroud of Turin, brought into high resolution through photography. Geimer's investigations complement the history of photographic images by cataloging a corresponding history of their symptoms, their precarious visibility, and the disruptions threatened by image noise. Interwoven with the familiar history of photography is a secret history of photographic artifacts, spots, and hazes that historians have typically dismissed as 'spurious phenomena', 'parasites', or 'enemies of the photographer'. With such photographs, it is virtually impossible to tell where a 'picture' has been disrupted--where the representation ends and the image noise begins.
- Uniform Title
- Bilder aus Versehen. English
- Alternative Title
- Bilder aus Versehen.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- History and "prehistory" -- Visibility by destruction/disturbance: incidents of photography -- Case study I: signs of life or "false flames" : Jules Luys and the controversy over "effluviography" -- Case study II: a self-portrait of Christ or the white noise of photography : Paul Vignon and the earliest photograph of the Shroud of Turin -- Visible/invisible : critique of a dichotomy -- The "optical unconscious" of photography.
- Call Number
- JQF 18-598
- ISBN
- 9780226471877
- 022647187X
- LCCN
- 2017038031
- OCLC
- 1001564021
- Author
- Geimer, Peter, author.
- Title
- Inadvertent images : a history of photographic apparitions / Peter Geimer ; translated by Gerrit Jackson.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Added Author
- Jackson, Gerrit, translator.
- Translation Of:
- Translation of: Geimer, Peter. Bilder aus Versehen. Hamburg : Philo Fine Arts, ©2010 9783865726544 (DLC) 2010451578 (OCoLC)456904536
- Research Call Number
- JQF 18-598