Inadvertent images : a history of photographic apparitions /
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. Peter Geimer explores all kinds of phot...
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| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- History and "prehistory"
- Visibility by destruction/disturbance: incidents of photography
- Case study I: signs of life or "false flames" : Jules Luys and the controversy over "effluviography"
- Case study II: a self-portrait of Christ or the white noise of photography : Paul Vignon and the earliest photograph of the Shroud of Turin
- Visible/invisible : critique of a dichotomy
- The "optical unconscious" of photography.