Night Albums - Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph

List of contents

Introduction 
I Ephemerality, over Time 
II Ways of Seeing and "Live" Photography: Four Case Studies
III Future Visibility
IV Revised Foundations
Coda

Acknowledgments
Notes
List of Illustrations
Index

Summary

We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen, condition of photography: its ephemerality.

Through a series of case studies spanning the history of photography, The Night Albums takes up the provocations of artists who collectively redefine how we experience visibility. From the protracted hesitancies of photography’s origins, to conceptual and performative art that has emerged since the 1960s, to the waves of technological experimentation flourishing today, Albers foregrounds artists who offer fleeting, hidden, conditional, and future modes of visibility. By unveiling how ephemerality shapes the photographic experience, she ultimately proposes an expanded framework for the medium.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Palmer Albers, Albers Kate Palmer
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780520381520
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38152-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Photography & photographs, Media Studies, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / History / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, ART / Digital, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Electronic, holographic & video art, Photography and photographs, Digital, video and new media arts, The arts: general topics