Before Photography
Author: Peter Galassi (Museumskurator.)
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13:
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Before Photography
Author: Kirsten Belgum
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-03-08
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 3110696622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts.
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
Author: Michael Fried
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780300136845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problems—associated with notions of theatricality, literalness, and objecthood, and touching on the role of original intention in artistic production, first discussed in his controversial essay “Art and Objecthood” (1967)—have come to the fore once again in recent photography. This means that the photographic “ghetto” no longer exists; instead photography is at the cutting edge of contemporary art as never before. Among the photographers and video-makers whose work receives serious attention in this powerfully argued book are Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, James Welling, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Future discussions of the new art photography will have no choice but to take a stand for or against Fried’s conclusions.
Faking it
Author: Mia Fineman
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1588394735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is a long-held truism that 'the camera does not lie'. Yet, as Mia Fineman argues in this illuminating volume, that statement contains its own share of untruth. While modern technological innovations, such as Adobe's Photoshop software, have accustomed viewers to more obvious levels of image manipulation, the practice of "doctoring" photographs has in fact existed since the medium was invented. In "Faking It", Fineman demonstrates that today's digitally manipulated images are part of a continuum that begins with the earliest years of photography, encompassing methods as diverse as overpainting, multiple exposure, negative retouching, combination printing, and photomontage. Among the book's revelations are previously unknown and never before published images that document the acts of manipulation behind two canonical works of modern photography: one blatantly fantastical (Yves Klein's "Leap into the Void" of 1960); the other a purportedly unadulterated record of a real place in time (Paul Strand's "City Hall Park" of 1915). Featuring 160 captivating pictures created between the 1840s and 1990s in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, "Faking It" provides an essential counterhistory of photography as an inspired blend of fabricated truths and artful falsehoods."--Publisher's website.
Before Pictures
Author: Douglas Crimp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780226423456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFront room/back room -- Spanish Harlem (East 98th Street), 1967-69 -- Way out on a nut -- Chelsea (West 23rd Street), 1969-71 -- Back to the turmoil -- West Village (West 10th Street), 1971-74 -- Art news parties -- Hotel des artistes -- Tribeca (Chambers Street), 1974-76 -- Action around the edges -- Disss-co (a fragment) -- Broadway-Nassau (Nassau Street), 1976 -- Agon -- Pictures, before and after
The Print Before Photography
Author: Antony Griffiths
Publisher: British museum Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714126951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark publication--beautifully illustrated with over 300 prints from the British Museum's renowned collection--which traces the history of printmaking from its earliest days until the arrival of photography.
Equal Before the Lens
Author: Barbara McCandless
Publisher: TAMU Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis album of historical photographs from a small Texas town captures for all time the various ethnic groups and immigrants who lived there from 1925 to 1945. From the late 1800s, almost every town in America supported at least one commercial photographer who inadvertently documented its history through formal portraits and special assignments around the community. Over the course of his career, Trlica, [son of] a Czech immigrant[s], built a similar visual archive of the social life of his adopted home of Granger, Texas. McCandless has done a very good job of selecting, arranging, and interpreting the photographs, all of which are reproduced in duotone. The result is a lovely and intriguing book. Equal Before the Lens will be of obvious interest and value in regional collections. However, because it deals with an overlooked area in American studies, it also deserves a place in social history and documentary photography collections. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries. - Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill. ©1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Author: Philip Gefter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-11-03
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 163149015X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection This "admiring and absorbing biography" (Deborah Solomon, The New York Times Book Review) charts Sam Wagstaff's incalculable influence on contemporary art, photography, and gay identity. A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon). Now, in Philip Gefter's groundbreaking biography, he emerges as a cultural visionary. Gefter documents the influence of the man who—although known today primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe—"almost invented the idea of photography as art" (Edmund White). Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe braids together Wagstaff's personal transformation from closeted society bachelor to a rebellious curator with a broader portrait of the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, creating a definitive portrait of a man and his era.
Before Photography
Author: Stephen Ratcliffe
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
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Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0374521344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.
