Photography and failure : one medium's entanglement with flops, underdogs, and disappointments /

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Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Photography -- Social aspects. Photography -- Psychological aspects. Photography -- History. Photographic errors. Photographic errors. Photography. Photography -- Psychological aspects. Photography -- Social aspects. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11394294

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Other authors / contributors:	Belden-Adams, Kris, editor.
ISBN:	9781474293389 1474293387 9781474293402 9781474293396
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes some texts translated from Portuguese.
Summary:	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.0.
Other form:	Online version: Photography and failure. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781474293396

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Noble Failure: Photography as Tragic Muse / Kris Belden-Adams
2. "Nothing Worthy of Notice"? The Daguerreian Gallery of T P. and D. C. Collins in Philadelphia / Anne Verplanck
3. Rodchenko's Photographic Communism / Todd Cronan
4. Exile and Erasure: Forgetting Ilse Bing / Donna West Brett
5. Mechanisms of Institutional Failure, Or the Impossible National Museum of French Photography, Eleonore Challine
6. Crimes Seen and Unseen: Fantasies and Failures of Photographic Truth in Joel Sternfeld's On This Site and Trevor Paglen's Limit Telephotography / Catherine Zuromskis
7. Toward an Ontology of African Studio Portraiture, Allison Moore
8. "Composita," the "Mascot" of the Smith College Class of 1886: Picturing Sisterhood, Social Caste, and Gender Roles / Kris Belden-Adams
9. Capturing the Invisible: Affect, Loss, and the Problematics of the Panoramic Image in Josef Sudek's Sad Landscapes / Amy Hughes
10. Default Delete: Photographic Archives in a Digital Age / Kate Palmer Albers
11. Copies and Clouds: Charles Negre and the Death of Emulation / Jacob W. Lewis
12. Thirty Times Failed: Valerio Vieira and Experimental Photography in Brazil / Cezar Bartholomeu
13. Success and Failure in African Photography / Kevin Mulhearn
14. Failure, Glorious Failure / Geoffrey Batchen.

Photography and failure : one medium's entanglement with flops, underdogs, and disappointments /

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