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BL
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632073
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Kelsey, Robin,1961-
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| Title & Author
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Photography and the art of chance /\ Robin Kelsey.
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| Page. NO
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398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations (some color) ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780674744004 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0674744004 (hbk : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-384) and index.
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| Contents
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William Henry Fox Talbot and his picture machine -- Defining art against the mechanical, c. 1860 -- Julia Margaret Cameron transfigures the glitch -- The fog of beauty, c. 1890 -- Alfred Stieglitz moves with the city -- Stalking chance and making news, c. 1930 -- Frederick Sommer decomposes our nature -- Pressing photography into a modernist mold, c. 1970 -- John Baldessari plays the only game in town.
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| Abstract
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As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.
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| Subject
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Photography, Artistic-- Philosophy.
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Chance in art.
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| Dewey Classification
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770
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| LC Classification
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TR642.K445 2015
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