Instant and Its Shadow - A Story of Photography

Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly's The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.

List of contents

Preface | vii

Part I: A Haystack in the Sun | 1

Part II: The Shadow of a Ladder | 57

Notes | 95

About the author

Jean-Christophe Bailly teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, in Blois, France. His books include The Animal Side and The Instant and Its Shadow, as well as many other books and artists' catalogs in French.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Christophe Bailly, Jean-christophe/ Martin Bailly
• Assisted by: Samuel E Martin (Translation), Samuel E. Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780823287451
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8745-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Fotografie, Kunsttheorie, Photography, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, PHOTOGRAPHY / History