Negative/positive : a history of photography

著者

• Batchen, Geoffrey

書誌事項

Negative/positive : a history of photography

Geoffrey Batchen

Routledge, 2021

• : hbk

注記

Includes index

Summary: "As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keïta, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, ... "

内容説明・目次

内容説明

As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keita, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from the business practices of professional photographers to the repetition of pose and setting that is so central to certain familiar photographic genres. Ranging from the daguerreotype to the digital image, the end result is a kind of little history of photography, partial and episodic, but no less significant a rendition of the photographic experience for being so. This book represents a summation of Batchen's work to date, making it be essential reading for students and scholars of photography and for all those interested in the history of the medium

目次

• 1. Negatives and Positives
• 2. Inventing Negatives
• 3. Photographic Drawings
• 4. More of the Same
• 5. Control Methods
• 6. Created Worlds
• 7. Hiding in Plain Sight
• 8. The Cult of the Negative
• 9. Electricity Made Visible
• 10. Authorship and Ownership
• 11. Refashioning a Past
• 12. Return of the Repressed
• 13. Proper Names
• 14. Does Size Matter?
• 15. Ordering Things
• 16. Poses and Settings
• 17. Hidden Mothers
• 18. Collecting Things
• 19. Still Life
• 20. Repetition and Difference
• 21. Negative/Positive.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC00818554
• ISBN:
  • 9780367405847
• LCCN: 2020026014
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xxii, 265 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : TR15
  • DC23 : 770.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Photography -- History