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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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The Smith College Monthly
Author: Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Bulletin
Author: Eugenics, 'Aristogenics', Photography
Author: Kris Belden-AdamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182673
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of eugenics – which first took hold in the United States at Harvard University. Eugenics, "Aristogenics," Photography takes a closer look at how composite portraiture documented an idealized “reality” of the New England social-caste experience and explains how, when positioned in relation to the individual stories and portraits of members of the class, the portraits reveal points of non-conformity and rebellion with their own rhetoric.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
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Education Series
Author: University of MissouriPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Photography and Failure
Author: Kris Belden-AdamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000211541
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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. Finally, the book probes the historiographical failures affecting the discipline, drawing on key debates, such as the perceived over-emphasis on European and American photography, and the place of photography theory in contemporary art practice. Blurring the boundaries between traditional binaries of art and non-art photography, amateur and professional practice, and individual and corporate perspectives, Photography and Failure presents a new approach to understanding and evaluating photographic history.
Catalog
Author: Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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