Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Correspondence
Author: VoltaireA Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author: Richard OffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Fourteenth Century
Author: Klara SteinwegPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Fourteenth Century
Author: Miklós BoskovitsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miniature painters
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Pencil of Nature
Author: William Henry Fox TalbotPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pencil of Nature" by William Henry Fox Talbot. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
Author: Costanza CaraffaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110390035
Category : Art
Languages : de
Pages : 535
Book Description
Das "lange 19. Jahrhundert" der Nationalstaatenbildung ist auch das Jahrhundert der "Erfindung" der Fotografie wie auch der Geburt der modernen Archivwissenschaften. Die Fotografie wurde bald von den Nationalstaaten in ihrem Bedürfnis nach bildlicher Visualisierung in den Dienst genommen. Nach dem II. Weltkrieg, dem Zerfall der kolonialistischen Systeme und schließlich dem Fall der Berliner Mauer erlangten nationale Fragen erneut Aktualität - nun in einem globalen Rahmen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen Fotografie/Fotoarchiven und der Idee der Nation, wobei das Objektiv sich nicht auf einzelne Ikonen, sondern auf die weitreichende Dimension des Archivs richtet.
The Reconfigured Eye
Author: William J. MitchellPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262631600
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. "An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images.... A useful overview of a critical subject."—New York Times Book Review Enhanced? Or faked? Today the very idea of photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital image manipulation and synthesis: photographs can now be altered at will in ways that are virtually undetectable, and photorealistic synthesized images are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual photographs. Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. It describes the technology of the digital image in detail and looks closely at how it is changing the way we explore ideas, at its aesthetic potential, and at the ethical questions it raises.
Belief in God
Author: Minot Judson SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Raw Histories
Author: Elizabeth EdwardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000181294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological photographs as 'history' can offer both theoretical and empirical insights into these roles. Photographs are thought to make problematic history because of their ambiguity and 'rawness'. In short, they have too many meanings. The author refutes this prejudice by exploring, through a series of case studies, precisely the potential of this raw quality to open up new perspectives. Taking the nature of photography as her starting point, the author argues that photographs are not merely pictures of things but are part of a dynamic and fluid historical dialogue, which is active not only in the creation of the photograph but in its subsequent social biography in archive and museum spaces, past and present. In this context, the book challenges any uniform view of anthropological photography and its resulting archives. Drawing on a variety of examples, largely from the Pacific, the book demonstrates how close readings of photographs reveal not only western agendas, but also many layers of differing historical and cross-cultural experiences. That is, photographs can 'spring leaks' to show an alternative viewpoint. These themes are developed further by examining the dynamics of photographs and issues around them as used by contemporary artists and curators and presented to an increasingly varied public. This book convincingly demonstrates photographs' potential to articulate histories other than those of their immediate appearances, a potential that can no longer be neglected by scholars and institutions.
Industrial Madness
Author: Elizabeth Anne McCauleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300038545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In 1848 there were thirteen commercial photographic studios in the city of Paris. By 1871 this number had expanded to almost 400. This book is the first to analyze the origins of professional photography during the Second Empire and its transformation from a novel curiosity to a vital part of the urban environment.