Transformational Imagemaking
Subtitle: Handmade Photography Since 1960
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: February 14, 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780415810265
Copyright date: 2014
Description: "Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960 is a groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas by imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. These artists represent a diverse group of curious experimentalists who have propelled the medium s evolution by visualizing their subject matter as it originates from their mind's eye. Many favor the historical techniques commonly known as alternative photographic processes, but all these makers demonstrate that the real alternative is found in their mental approach and not in their use of physical methods. Within this context, photographer and photography historian Robert Hirsch outlines the varied approaches these artists have utilized to question conventional photographic practices, to convey internal realities, and to examine what constitutes photographic reality. Hirsch explores the half-century evolution of these concepts and methodologies and their popularity among contemporary imagemakers who are merging digital and analog processes to express what was thought to be photographically inexpressible"--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: label: Contributors
title: vi; label: Preface
title: vii; label: Acknowledgements
title: xii; label: Transformational Imagemaking
title: 1; label: Fingerprints
title: 1; label: A Concise Historic Overview
title: 2; label: Realer than Real
title: 11; label: The 1960s Zeitgeist
title: 12; label: The Haptic Personality
title: 14; label: An American Hybrid of New Realism
title: 15; label: West Coast Roots
title: 18; label: Groundbreaking Exibitions
title: 34; label: East Coast Makers
title: 38; label: Progression
title: 130; label: Evolution
title: 160; label: Inferences
title: 229; label: Notes
title: 234; label: Select Bibliography
title: 236; label: Index
title: 238