The edge of vision : the rise of abstraction in photography / Lyle Rexer.
2009
TR656 .R473 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The edge of vision : the rise of abstraction in photography / Lyle Rexer.
Author
Rexer, Lyle.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781597111003 (alk. paper)
1597111007 (alk. paper)
1597111007 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Aperture : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], c2009.
Language
English
Description
291 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Call Number
TR656 .R473 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
770.1
Summary
From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle Rexer examines abstraction at pivotal moments, starting with the inception of photography, when many of the pioneers believed the camera might reveal other aspects of reality. The Edge of Vision traces subsequent explorations--from the Photo-Secessionists, who emphasized process and emotional expression over observed reality, to Modernist and Surrealist experiments. In the decades to follow, in particular from the 1950s through the 1980s, a multitude of photographers--Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind, Barbara Kasten, Ellen Carey, and James Welling, among them--took up abstraction from a variety of positions. Finally, Rexer explores the influence the history of abstraction exerts on contemporary thinking about the medium. Many contemporary artists--most prominently Penelope Umbrico, Michael Fomen, and Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin--reject classic definitions of photography's documentary dimension in favor of other conceptually inflected possibilities, somewhere between painting and performance art, that include the manipulation of process and printing. In addition to Rexer's engagingly written and richly illustrated history, this volume includes a selection of primary texts from and interviews with key practitioners and critics, such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, László Moholy-Nagy, Gottfried Jäger, Silvio Wolf, and Walead Beshty.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Undisclosed images
Disclosure and uncertainty in early photography
In light's captivity: spiritualized photography and the photo-secession
Modernism: new eyes for old
Stairways to heaven
Subversives
This is [not] a photograph
Selected documents.
Disclosure and uncertainty in early photography
In light's captivity: spiritualized photography and the photo-secession
Modernism: new eyes for old
Stairways to heaven
Subversives
This is [not] a photograph
Selected documents.