Daguerreotypes : Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects / Lisa Saltzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saltzman, Lisa, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic--Philosophy.

Photography, Artistic.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Photography--History.

Photographic interpetation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of photography and raised questions about its truth value as a documentary medium. Despite this situation, photography remains a stubbornly substantive form of evidence: referenced by artists, filmmakers, and writers as a powerful emblem of truth, photography has found its home in other media at precisely the moment of its own material demise. By examining this idea of photography as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, Daguerreotypes demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an otherwise unstable sense of self. Lisa Saltzman argues that in many modern works, the photograph asserts itself as a guarantor of identity, whether genuine or fabricated. From Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home-we find traces of photography's "fugitive subjects" throughout contemporary culture. Ultimately, Daguerreotypes reveals how the photograph, at once personal memento and material witness, has inspired a range of modern artistic and critical practices.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. DAGUERREOTYPES

CHAPTER ONE. RETRO- SPECTACLES

CHAPTER TWO. ORPHANS

CHAPTER THREE. JUST DRAWINGS

CHAPTER FOUR. TIME REGAINED

EPILOGUE

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226242170

022624217X

OCLC:

912878849