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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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| 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) |