Photography and the Art of Chance

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.

About the author

Robin Kelsey is Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography at Harvard University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Kelsey, Kelsey Robin, Robin Kelsey
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2015
• EAN: 9780674744004
• ISBN: 978-0-674-74400-4
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, Photography and photographs