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Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey.
| Author/creator | Kelsey, Robin, 1961- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, Masschusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. |
| Description | 398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | William Henry Fox Talbot and his picture machine -- Defining art against the mechanical, c. 1860 -- Julia Margaret Cameron transfigures the glitch -- The fog of beauty, c. 1890 -- Alfred Stieglitz moves with the city -- Stalking chance and making news, c. 1930 -- Frederick Sommer decomposes our nature -- Pressing photography into a modernist mold, c. 1970 -- John Baldessari plays the only game in town. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2014040717 |
| ISBN | 9780674744004 (hbk : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0674744004 (hbk : alk. paper) |