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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101350028223
ISBN-139781350028227
eBay Product ID (ePID)238814354
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSculptural Photographs : from the Calotype to Digital Technologies
SubjectSculpture & Installation, Subjects & Themes / Historical, History, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Photography
AuthorPatrizia Di Bello
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2017-038842
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal778.9973
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Daguerreotypes and Talbotypes: Hiram Power's Greek Slave, 1847 to 1852 2. Stereoscopic photographs: The Bride by Raffaelle Monti, 1862 3. Pictorialist prints: Eduard J. Steichen's Rodin -Le Penseur , 1902 to 1906 4. The photobook: The Sculptures of Picasso , with 'Photographs By Brassaï', 1949 5. Slides and colour prints, on the gallery wall and in the magazine: Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series, 1978 to 1985 Conclusion - Digital photographic 'casts': Barry X Ball's Purity , 2011
SynopsisThis is the first monograph exploring how, throughout its history, sculpture has provided a model to conceptualize photography as an art of mechanical reproduction. While there is a growing body of work examining how photography has contributed to the development of a Western 'sculptural imagination' by disseminating works, facilitating the investigation of the medium, or changing sculptural aesthetics, this study focuses on how sculpture has provided not only beautiful and convenient subject matter for photographs, or commercial and cultural opportunities for photographers in the market for art reproductions, but also an exemplar for thinking about photography as a medium based on mechanical means of production. In both media, processes from conception to realization involve apparatus that bypass the 'touch of the artist' - so important to enduring notions of the value of works of art. The book closely analyses a number of case studies, from 1847 to the present, selected both to explicate the conceptual and technological continuities between the two media, and also because of how they illuminate the materiality of photographic objects. The final chapter considers the convergence of the two media in contemporary sculptural practices that use forms of 3D photography and computer-operated sculpting machines. Rooted in an understanding of the practical, social and aesthetic implications of photographic as well as sculptural technologies, this volume demonstrates how photographs of sculpture are particularly useful in revealing how photography's changing materialities shape the meaning of images as they are made, circulated, looked at, written about and handled at different historical moments.
LC Classification NumberTR658.3.D53 2018
