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parency, intent on pursuing the least recognizable, most unnatural images that the process could yield. Successive exposures, la ...

on the technological elements of the process, to the point where he calls the artist himself a mechanical apparatus. Likewise, i ...

in Schwitters’s journalMerz(1923), were made in collaboration with de Stijl artist Vilmos Huszar and signed ‘‘El Huszar and Vilm ...

Man Ray, Rayograph, ca. 1925/print ca. 1963, gelatin silver print, 29.023.1 cm, Museum Purchase. [Photograph courtesy of George ...

History of Photography: Interwar Years; Institute of Design (New Bauhaus); Lens; Manipulation; Mod- ernism; Montage; Perspective ...

PHOTOGRAPHIC THEORY The development of twentieth-century photographic theory can be divided into two periods, the first finding ...

photographers were known as the Pictorialists. Not- withstanding their individual disagreements, from a theoretical perspective ...

formal techniques to do so in a way that suggests metaphorical treatment and that thereby deflects attention away from that lite ...

Three ideas lie at the heart of the traditional scientific method: (i) that scientific theories are pre- sentations of the extra ...

ity both took away its ‘‘aura’’ of preciousness (and, hence, its value as a commodity) and allowed for the kind of wide dissemin ...

Such emphasis on the malleability of the human individual reinforces the ‘‘death of the author’’ understanding of text and image ...

reasons that theorists such as Baudrillard have strong post-structuralist sympathies. Recent Developments While current photogra ...

Two things put photographs, among all other forms of representation, in a class by themselves: first, once the apparatus is in p ...

all off the ground at one phase of the gallop—but, to the surprise of the world, only when the feet were bunched together under ...

Approximation aims for an impossible exactitude, but this may not be such a bad thing—we cannot reach the ideal, but we may come ...

Photographic ‘‘truth’’ has historically had a pecu- liar and sometimes controversial standing in relation to one of its very com ...

utilitarian benefits in photographs—as a source of visual references from which to paint, for instance, and as a means to make r ...

work in different media may show an affinity even if no direct interactions occur. Of course, often the relationship is direct: ...

images from their traditional representational func- tion by reducing emphasis on recognizable subject matter. Like Abstract Exp ...

bringing their practice even closer to the synthetic fabrication strategies of painters. In general, recent photography and pain ...