Photography and failure : one medium's entanglement with flops, underdogs, and disappointments / edited by Kris Belden-Adams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belden-Adams, Kris, editor.

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Photography--Psychological aspects.

Photography--History.

History.

Photographic errors.

Physical Description:

xi, 231 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Language Note:

Includes some texts translated from Portuguese.

Summary:

Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development and perceived value of this medium. Exploring a range of failures - individual and institutional, technological and historiographical - Photography and Failure asks what it means to fail and considers how this narrative of failure has shaped our understanding of photography. From the trial-and-error beginnings of photochemistry to poor business decisions influenced by fickle public opinion and taste, the founders and early practitioners of photography frequently faced bankruptcy and ignominy. Alongside these individual 'failures', this collection of essays examines the role of museums in rediscovering, preserving and presenting photographs within institutions, as well as technological limitations, such as the problematic panoramic lens or the digital, archival failures of Snapchat. Moving beyond the physical photograph and these processes, the book also investigates the limitations of photographs themselves, as purveyors of truth, time, space, documentary realism and social change, whether these failures are used to effect or not.0.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Photography and failure.

ISBN:

9781474293389

1474293387

OCLC:

973281775