Time and photography
An edition of Time and photography (2010)
By Jan Baetens,Alexander Streitberger,Hilde van Gelder
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
Leuven University Press,Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press,Leuven Univ Pr
Language
eng
Pages
194
Description:
Despite our stereotypical ideas on photographic images as a snapshots (slices of time), photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: time can be directly represented within the image, it can be its theme and philosophical horizon, but it can also represent the global framework in which photographic practices develop and change through time. It is the ambition of this book to bring together the various aspect of time in photography as well as of photography in time, and to illustrate them in a series of case studies that focus on seminal authors (e.g. Fox Talbot, Victor Burgin, Robert Morris) and genres (e.g. spirit photography, montage photobooks and tableau photography), with examples ranging from the very first photographic pictures to the most recent cross-medial uses of photography in and outside art.