Photography and Failure: One Medium's Entanglement with Flops, Underdogs and Disappointments
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (613 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1474293387 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kris Belden-Adams is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Mississippi, USA. Her scholarly work on the history of art, photography and visual culture has been published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographies, Southern Studies, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge a
Her scholarly work on the history of art, photography and visual culture has been published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographies, Southern Studies, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society and Cabinet.. About the AuthorKris Belden-Adams is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Mississippi, USA
Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development and perceived value of this medium. 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. 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. Alongside these individual 'failures', this collection of essays examines the role of museums in rediscovering, pres