Time and photography
By: edited by Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder
Series: Lieven Gevaert series -- [v. 10]; Lieven Gevaert series -- v. 10.
Publisher: Leuven University Press; Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press; Leuven Univ Pr
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven; [Ithaca]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9789058677938
Subjects: Fotografie; Time and art; History; Time in art; Photography; Photographic criticism; Tijd
Description: Despite our stereotypical ideas on photographic images as a snapshots (slices of time), photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: time can be directly represented within the image, it can be its theme and philosophical horizon, but it can also represent the global framework in which photographic practices develop and change through time. It is the ambition of this book to bring together the various aspect of time in photography as well as of photography in time, and to illustrate them in a series of case studies that focus on seminal authors (e.g. Fox Talbot, Victor Burgin, Robert Morris) and genres (e.g. spirit photography, montage photobooks and tableau photography), with examples ranging from the very first photographic pictures to the most recent cross-medial uses of photography in and outside art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Time and technology, devices for time. -- 1.; title: Fixing transience : photography and other images of time in 1830s London  -- Chitra Ramalingam -- 2.; title: Spooked time : the temporal dimensions of spirit photography  -- Louis Kaplan -- 3.; title: Modern time : revisiting the tableau  -- Joanna Lowry -- pt. 2.; title: Returning time, memory, order. -- 4.; title: Time and memory in William Henry Fox Talbot's calotypes of Oxford and David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson's of St Andrews  -- Graham Smith; title: Between present and past : photographic Portugal of the 1950s  -- Susan S. Martins; title: Time and order : self-reflective strategies in photo essays  -- Maren Polte -- pt. 3.; title: Cinematic time, duration and fragment.; title: The eclipes of time  -- Victor Burgin; title: Suspended relationships :  the montage photography books of Moshe Raviv Vorobeichic  -- Andrea Nelson; title: "An image of an image" : photography and Robert Morris's Continuous project altered daily  -- David Green; title: Notes on authors.