Photography and the art of chance /

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 m...

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Main Author: Kelsey, Robin, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index.
ISBN:9780674744004 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0674744004 (hbk : alk. paper)