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Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey.
- Title
- Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey.
- Author
- Kelsey, Robin, 1961-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Masschusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- 398 pages : 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.
- Subject
- Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800-1877
- Cameron, Julia Margaret 1815-1879
- Stieglitz, Alfred 1864-1946
- Sommer, Frederick 1905-1999
- Baldessari, John 1931-2020
- Photography, Artistic > Philosophy
- Chance in art
- Photography, Artistic > Philosophy
- Fotokonst > teori, filosofi
- Slumpen i konsten
- Photographie artistique > Philosophie
- Hasard dans l'art
- Fotografie
- Zufall
- Ästhetik
- Kunst
- Philosophie
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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 fool.
- ISBN
- 9780674744004
- 0674744004
- LCCN
- 2014040717
- OCLC
- 893709489
- SCSB-10713266
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library