Photography and the art of chance
By: Robin Kelsey
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780674744004
Subjects: Philosophy; Artistic Photography; Chance in art
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: William Henry Fox Talbot and his picture machine; title: Defining art against the mechanical, c. 1860; title: Julia Margaret Cameron transfigures the glitch; title: The fog of beauty, c. 1890; title: Alfred Stieglitz moves with the city; title: Stalking chance and making news, c. 1930; title: Frederick Sommer decomposes our nature; title: Pressing photography into a modernist mold, c. 1970; title: John Baldessari plays the only game in town.