Title & Author:

The ecstasy of things : from the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographs / eds. Thomas Seelig, Urs Stahel.

Publication:

Göttingen ; [Great Britain] : Steidl, 2004.

Description:

397 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Ecstasy of Things' at Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz, September 4 to November 14, 2004; and Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, and Spazio Oberdan, Milan, March 22 May 29, 2005"--Colophon.
"Fotomuseum Winterthur; Fotostiftung Schweiz."
"UBS AG is the main sponsor of the exhibition and the book; Significant support was provided by the Canton of Zurich and The Federal Office of Culture."
"The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "The ecstasy of things" at Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz, September 4 to November 14, 2004; and Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, and Spazio Oberdan, Milan, March 22 to May 29, 2005"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Form and material -- On the poetics of things in modernity / Michael Jakob -- Sample and sort : on the photographic idea of things in the 19th century / Timm Starl -- Patent inventions -- Craftsmanship and mass production -- Convincing rather than persuading : on the relationship between object photography and product design / Gerda Breuer -- "Good form" -- From the window display to shopping mall : the rhetoric of selling -- Objective photography in Switzerland 1930-1950 / Thilo Koenig -- Packaging : the second skin -- Perfume and prostheses : the body reified -- Found objects, staging, effects : reflections of object photography / Gisela Ecker and Susanne Scholz -- Light and speed.
The wired world : communication and entertainment -- On the fascination of things / Hubertus von Amelunxen -- Faster! better! : mobility and freedom -- Insert -- Glass camouflage : photography, objects and objectivity / David Campany -- The making of ... -- Object photography : status, appraoch, presentation, image / Thomas Seelig -- Order in the office : touch-typing and stereotyping -- Home : furnishing an identity -- From things to flows / Neil Cummings -- Childhood dreams -- Sports equipment -- Culture and contingency / Norbert Bolz -- Symbol and fetish : the thing and I -- Decay and disintegration.

ISBN:

3865210856
9783865210852
0013070444
9780013070443

Subject:

Commercial products Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Commercial products in art Exhibitions.
Advertising photography History Exhibitions.
Produits commerciaux Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Produits commerciaux dans l'art Expositions.
Photographie publicitaire Histoire Expositions.
Advertising photography.
Commercial products in art.
Commercial products.
Foto's.
Reclamefotografie.
Commercial products Pictorial works.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
illustrated books.
exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
History.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Seelig, Thomas, 1964-
Stahel, Urs.
Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland)
Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Museo di fotografia contemporanea (Cinisello Balsamo, Italy)
Spazio Oberdan (Milan, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243690
Call No.: TR706 .E27 2004
Status: Available