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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Photography and failure
    sub title: one medium's entanglement with flops, underdogs, and disappointments
  name:
    name part: Belden-Adams, Kris
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: por
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development and perceived value of this medium. Exploring a range of failures, individual and institutional, technological and historiographical, Photography and Failure asks what it means to fail and considers how this narrative of failure has shaped our understanding of photography. From the trial-and-error beginnings of photochemistry to poor business decisions influenced by fickle public opinion and taste, the founders and early practitioners of photography frequently faced bankruptcy and ignominy. Alongside these individual 'failures,' this collection of essays examines the role of museums in rediscovering, preserving and presenting photographs within institutions, as well as technological limitations, such as the problematic panoramic lens or the digital, archival failures of Snapchat. Moving beyond the physical photograph and these processes, the book also investigates the limitations of photographs themselves, as purveyors of truth, time, space, documentary realism and social change, whether these failures are used to effect or not.
  note: edited by Kris Belden-Adams.
  note: Includes some texts translated from Portuguese.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Photography
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Photography
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Photography
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Photographic errors
  classification: TR183 .P48294 2017
  classification: 770
  identifier: 9781474293389
  identifier: 1474293387
  identifier: 9781474293402
  identifier: 9781474293396
  identifier: 2017008926
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170227
    record change date: 20180214135321.0
    record identifier: in00003913594