Photography and Imagination
Title | Photography and Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Amos Morris-Reich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0429853424 |
As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing more reliable representations of reality. But as an achievement of technological modernity, photography can also be seen as a way to realize a creation of the imagination more vividly than can painting or drawing. Photography and Imagination investigates, from diverse points of view focusing on both theory and practice, the relation between these two terms. The book explores their effect on photography’s capacity, through various forms and modalities of imaginative investments and displacements, to affect even reality itself.
Visual Histories
Title | Visual Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Malavika Karlekar |
Publisher | OUP India |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198090267 |
Not much is known about how the coming of photography changed visual discourse or affected people's lives. Through a selection of 32 essays, each illustrated with archival photographs, this volume looks at the camera in the colonial era and in post-independent India to reveal both: history through photographs and the history of photographs in India.
Picturing Place
Title | Picturing Place PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Schwartz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2021-10-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000548783 |
The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what angle and when. This text examines this inherent subjectivity. Drawing on photographs that come from personal albums, corporate archives, commercial photographers, government reports and which were produced as art, as record, as data, the work shows how the photography shaped and was shaped by geographical concerns.
Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination
Title | Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Grace Seiberling |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1986-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226744988 |
"This book results from research which was begun with all the casualness, but inherent seriousness, of the nineteenth-century amateur. I had the privilege of frequent access to the archives of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and began to go through the nineteenth-century photographs in a systematic way. I wanted to go beyond the clichés of the history of photography as a series of often-reproduced masterworks and to find out something about the history of seeing, or at least of thinking about, images in the nineteenth century."--Préface.
Image & Imagination
Title | Image & Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Langford |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780773529694 |
A richly illustrated exploration of the imagination in photography featuring the work of over sixty international artists.
Beyond Photography
Title | Beyond Photography PDF eBook |
Author | Rommert Boonstra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9789078068341 |
Overzicht van het werk van Nederlandse en Belgische fotografen.
Image Or Imagination? - The Problem of Photographic Represenation
Title | Image Or Imagination? - The Problem of Photographic Represenation PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Thoma |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 69 |
Release | 2007-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3638683281 |
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Communications - Theories, Models, Terms and Definitions, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Englisches Seminar), course: Key Terms for Studying Culture, 39 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Altered pictures have always caused much controversy. Even when photography was still in its infancy, manipulative arrangement was already an issue. Nowadays, digital photography in particular faces an erosion of trust because newsmagazines and newspapers make frequent use of various manipulation techniques, which fiercely challenges the shared belief that photographs record the world objectively and truthfully. Oddly enough, even though a picture may ′lie′, it is still used as evidence in the courtroom or understood as a valuable historical document. In my analysis of photography′s oscillation between image and imagination, with the two terms representing something traditionally thought of as real on the one hand and something thought of as constructed on the other hand, I want to address these questions and analyse how and what a picture represents. I argue that meaning is to a large extent constructed by the viewer and does not exist as an inherent quality. Consequently, whether an altered picture is seen as fraud or merely as an optimisation is a very subjective matter and strongly depends on contextual information. The viewer′s judgement is influenced by the path through which the image is mediated and the context in which it is embedded, but his judgement is also dependent on what the image means to him, not only on what he sees in it. This is not to say that photographs can under no circumstances be used as evidence. However, what can be said is that their truth-value is often overestimated. In any case, manipulation is not a side-effect that coincided with the birth of digital photography. Selection, framing, and other adjustments have always played an important role in film photography. After a gen