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Photography and the art of chance
- Title
- Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey.
- Author
- Kelsey, Robin, 1961-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFW 16-39 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index.
- 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 only game in town.
- Call Number
- MFW 16-39
- ISBN
- 9780674744004 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0674744004 (hbk : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014040717
- OCLC
- 893709489
- Author
- Kelsey, Robin, 1961- author.
- Title
- Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFW 16-39