Photography and the Art of Chance / / Robin Kelsey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Kelsey, Robin,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) :; 9 color illustrations, 57 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. William Henry Fox Talbot and His Picture Machine --; 2. Defining Art against the Mechanical, c. 1860 --; 3. Julia Margaret Cameron Transfigures the Glitch --; 4. The Fog of Beauty, c. 1890 --; 5. Alfred Stieglitz Moves with the City --; 6. Stalking Chance and Making News, c. 1930 --; 7. Frederick Sommer Decomposes Our Nature --; 8. Pressing Photography into a Modernist Mold, c. 1970 --; 9. John Baldessari Plays the Fool --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674426177; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674426177?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robin Kelsey.

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.