Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography

ISBN-13: 9781032073309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 736 str.

Robert Hirsch

Opis

• The most comprehensive and up to date photographic history available on the market. • Over 350 full-colour photographs, spanning the birth of photography to contemporary day from a global range of photographers. • The new edition is updated to include the latest advances in technology, the role of the citizen as a photographic journalist, and the role of social media/photo manipulation within photography.

Spis treści

1. Advancing Towards Photography: The Rise of the Reproduction  2. The Daguerreotype: Image and Object  3. Calotype Rising: The Arrival of Photography  4. Pictures on Glass: The Wet Plate Process  5. World News—Current Events: Picturing Tragedy  6. A New Medium of Communication  7. The Travelling Camera: Photography and Landscape  8. New Ways of Visualizing Time, Space, and Color  9. Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of Pictorialism  10. Modernism’s Innovations  11. The New Culture of Light  12. Social Documents  13. Catching Time  14. From Halftones to Bytes  15. The Atomic Age  16. New Frontiers: Expanding Boundaries  17. Changing Realities  18. Thinking About Photography  19. The Politics of Representation  20. Photography Becomes Digital Imaging

O autorze

Robert Hirsch is a photographic imagemaker, curator, historian, and writer. Former executive director of CEPA Gallery and now director of Light Research in Buffalo, NY, he has published scores of articles about visual culture and interviewed numerous significant figures in the photographic arts. His other books include Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels; Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age; Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Concepts, Equipment, Materials, and Processes; and Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography from 1960 to Now. A former associate editor for Digital Camera and Photovision, Hirsch has also written for Afterimage, exposure, History of Photography, The Photo Review, Photo Technique, and World Book Encyclopedia, among others. He has curated over 200 exhibitions and has had many one-person and group shows of his own work. For details visit www.lightresearch.net.