Daguerreotypes : fugitive subjects, contemporary objects /

Daguerreotypes : fugitive subjects, contemporary objects /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Saltzman, Lisa, author.
Imprint:	Chicago [Illinois] ; London [England] : University of Chicago Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	ix, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy. Photography -- Social aspects. Photography -- History. Photographic interpretation. Photographic interpretation. Photography. Photography, Artistic -- Philosophy. Photography -- Social aspects. History.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's UCPress copy 1 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10897787

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ISBN:	9780226242033 022624203X 9780226242170
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-186) and index.
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." -- Publisher's description
Standard no.:	40025066043

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects
1. Retro-Spectacles: On the Fictions of Contemporary Art Photography
2. Orphans: On émigrés and Images in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
3. Just Drawings: On Photographs, Fun Home and The Pencil of Nature
4. Time Regained: On Stasis and Duration in Contemporary Video Portraits
Epilogue
Notes
Index