Fugitive images : from photography to video

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Fugitive images : from photography to video

edited by Patrice Petro

(Theories of contemporary culture, v. 16)

Indiana University Press, c1995

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Based on a conference at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milkwaukee in April of 1992 entitled "Visual Culture: Film/Photography/History."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780253208903

Description

"Fugitive Images" gathers the most current debates about the image's complex relation to the things it seems to document, and its powerful ability to indicate or attest to what has been. Addressing the gap between the image and what it tries to represent, these essays reveal that acts of looking and thinking are more powerful than images themselves. The contributors include Herbert Blau, Edward Buscombe, Eduardo Cadava, Philippe Dubois, R gis Durand, Tom Gunning, Lynne Kirby, Patricia Mellencamp, cine O'Brien, Patrice Petro, John Tagg, Linda Williams, and Charles Wolfe.

Table of Contents

Introduction Patrice Petro Anatomies of the Visible Corporealized Observers: Visual Pornographies and the OCarnal Density of VisionO Linda Williams Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films, and PhotographyOs Uncanny Tom Gunning Death and the Photographic Body Lynne Kirby Hitories of Looking Inventing Monument Valley: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography and the Western Film Edward Buscombe Derelict Histories: A Politics of Scale Revised Aine OOBrien Still and Moving Images How to See (Photographically) Regis Durand Photography Mise-en-Film: Autobiographical (Hi)stories and Psychic Apparatuses Philippe Dubois, translated by Lynne Kirby An Empirical Anant-Garde: Laleen Jayamanne and Tracey Moffatt Patricia Mellencamp Just in Time: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Recovery of the Historical Subject Charles Wolfe Negativity and History Words of Light: These on the Photography of History Eduardo Cadava Flat-Out Vision Herbert Blau After Shock/Between Boredom and History Patrice Petro The Pencil of History John Tagg Notes on Contributors Index
Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780253344281

Description

"Fugitive Images" gathers the most current debates about the image's complex relation to the things it seems to document, and its powerful ability to indicate or attest to what has been. Addressing the gap between the image and what it tries to represent, these essays reveal that acts of looking and thinking are more powerful than images themselves. The contributors include Herbert Blau, Edward Buscombe, Eduardo Cadava, Philippe Dubois, R gis Durand, Tom Gunning, Lynne Kirby, Patricia Mellencamp, Cine O'Brien, Patrice Petro, John Tagg, Linda Williams, and Charles Wolfe.

Table of Contents

Introduction Patrice Petro Anatomies of the Visible Corporealized Observers: Visual Pornographies and the OCarnal Density of VisionO Linda Williams Phantom Images and Modern Manifestations: Spirit Photography, Magic Theater, Trick Films, and PhotographyOs Uncanny Tom Gunning Death and the Photographic Body Lynne Kirby Hitories of Looking Inventing Monument Valley: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography and the Western Film Edward Buscombe Derelict Histories: A Politics of Scale Revised Aine OOBrien Still and Moving Images How to See (Photographically) Regis Durand Photography Mise-en-Film: Autobiographical (Hi)stories and Psychic Apparatuses Philippe Dubois, translated by Lynne Kirby An Empirical Anant-Garde: Laleen Jayamanne and Tracey Moffatt Patricia Mellencamp Just in Time: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Recovery of the Historical Subject Charles Wolfe Negativity and History Words of Light: These on the Photography of History Eduardo Cadava Flat-Out Vision Herbert Blau After Shock/Between Boredom and History Patrice Petro The Pencil of History John Tagg Notes on Contributors Index

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