Photography, temporality, and modernity : time warped /
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 acros...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge history of photography.
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| Summary: | 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, including 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138544314 1138544310 |