Before Photography
Author : Peter Galassi (Museumskurator.)
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art and photography
ISBN :
Before Photography
Author : Kirsten Belgum
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110696622
Book Description
Recent 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.
Before Pictures
Author : Douglas Crimp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226423456
Book Description
Front 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
Faking it
Author : Mia Fineman
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : 1588394735
Book Description
"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.
The Print Before Photography
Author : Antony Griffiths
Publisher : British museum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Pictures
ISBN : 9780714126951
Book Description
A 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.
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
Author : Michael Fried
Publisher :
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300136845
Book Description
From 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.
Photography
Author : Mary Warner Marien
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1856694933
Book Description
Each of the eight chapters takes a period of up to forty years and examines the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual practitioners.-Back Cover.
A Picturesque Situation
Author : Brian Leigh Dunnigan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814332146
Book Description
Michigan historians and those interested in life in the pre-Civil War United States will appreciate the broad and striking picture of the Straits painted by A Picturesque Situation.
Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers
Author : Julie Adair King
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780471761167
Book Description
Over 200 full-color images, an attractive two-column design, and a price under $30 make this guide a must for digital photographers who want to take their skills to the next level Presents step-by-step instructions in uncluttered, highly visual format Clear steps illustrate the before-and-after transformations of images Topics covered include selecting proper camera settings, shooting against the best backdrop available, using photo-editing tools to correct mistakes, adjusting software and printer settings for better results, and performing "extreme" makeovers 40 percent of U.S. households now own a digital camera, and digital camera sales grew by 43 percent in 2004 over the prior year
Reasoned and Unreasoned Images
Author : Josh Ellenbogen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0271052597
Book Description
"Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--
