UID:
almahu_9949384301702882
Format:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781138544321
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1138544329
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9781351004244
,
1351004247
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9781351004251
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1351004255
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9781351004237
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1351004239
Series Statement:
Routledge history of photography
Content:
"This book examines the photography's unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium's ability to capture and sometimes "defy" time, while also traveling as objects across time-and-space nexuses. The book features studies of understudied, widespread, practices: studio portraiture, motion studies, panoramas, racing photo finishes, composite college class pictures, planetary photography, digital montages, and extended-exposure images. A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time, and the anxiety its passage provokes"--
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Photography and Time; The Multifariousness of Photographic Time; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Photography, Instantaneity, and the "Frozen Moments"; The "Instant": A Romantic Era Visual-Culture Fascination; Daguerre, the Diorama, and Departures From "Lived-Time" and "Reality"; Talbot's "Fairy Pictures": "Fixing Shadows," the "Momentary"; The "Instant," Canonized: Photography's Technological Evolution; Photography as Catalyst and Symptom of Modernity
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Spark and Strobe Illumination: Pushing the Boundaries of the Temporal FragmentDeath of a (Many) Light Bulb(s): Examining Edgerton's Altered Series; Photography, Instantaneity and Multifarious Temporalities; Notes; Bibliography; 3. The Fluidity of "Narrative Time"; The Temporal Complexity of "The One I Think I Am" and "The One I Want Others to Think I Am"; Connecting to Grand Historical Narratives; The Leighton Family as "Gumps": The Portrait-Taking Story; The Subjectivity of "Narrative Time"; Time Anxiety and the Leighton Family Portrait; Observers' Reinterpretations of the "Exhibited Self."
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The Leighton Family Portrait in Time/s"Narrative Time" and Subjectivity: Precedents in Practice and Theory 61 Vernacular History and "Objectivity"; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Asynchronous, "Sculptural" Time and the Racing Photo Finish; A Pre-History of the Photo Finish: Muybridge's Images of "Instantaneous" Time; Pre-History of the Photo Finish, Part Two: The Problems With the Fraction-of-a-Second-Exposure Image; The Fraction-of-a-Second, Full-Field Photo Finish in Practice; Horizontal Shutters, Moments Missed: Problems With the Single-Exposure Photo Finish
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The Strip-Photography Photo Finish: A Camera That Did Not "Blink"The Time-and-Space Matrix of the Strip-Photography Photo Finish; Strip Photography in Its Technological and Historical Context: The Panorama; Peripheral Photography as Photo-Finish Precedent; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 5. A"Tapestry" of Synthetic, Hypothetical Digital Time: NASA's Whole-Earth Photographs as "Data Visualizations"; Big Blue Marble's Re-Generation: Digital Whole-Earth Image-Making Practices; Photography as Medium for Data Visualization: Synthetic, Hypothetical Time
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Photography as Medium for Analog VisualizationsData Made Visible: Photographic Composites, Theorized; Notes; Bibliography; 6. Conclusions; Photography as Agent and Catalyst of Technological Modernity and Postmodernity; Time Embodied as Temporality, Subjectivity; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Photography, temporality, and modernity New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138544314 (hardback : alk. paper)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781138544321
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138544321
