Main entry:

Kelsey, Robin, 1961- author.

Title & Author:

Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey.

Publication:

Cambridge, Masschusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.

Description:

398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 fool.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780674744004 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0674744004 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Talbot, William Henry Fox 1800-1877
Cameron, Julia Margaret 1815-1879
Stieglitz, Alfred 1864-1946
Sommer, Frederick 1905-1999
Baldessari, John 1931-2020
Photography, Artistic Philosophy.
Chance in art.
Photographie artistique Philosophie.
Hasard dans l'art.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Fotografie
Zufall
Ästhetik
Kunst
Philosophie
Fotokonst teori, filosofi.
Slumpen i konsten.
1830-1980

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292551
Call No.: BIB 236890
Status: Available