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Hide and Seek - Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Zusatztext "There is much to enjoy in all four chapters and without doubt this book, detailing interrelationships of technological advances in photography and film and developments in camouflage media and camouflage consciousness, will live into the future as readers scrutinise it, evaluate it and take its useful and imaginative store of ideas in additional directions." Informationen zum Autor Hanna Rose Shell is the Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor of Science! Technology! and Society at MIT. Klappentext Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek! Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography! innovations in warfare! and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself to be much more--a set of institutional structures! mixed-media art practices! and permutations of subjectivity! that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention. Through a series of fascinating case studies! Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage--the static! the serial! and the dynamic--and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter! but also contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left behind: photomontages! paper blankets! stuffed rabbits! ghillie suits! and instructional films.Beginning with natural history and figurative art in the late nineteenth-century! continuing through the rise of aerial warfare in World War I! and onto the cinematic techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War II! this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide in plain sight. Zusammenfassung Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek , Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself as much more — a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention. Through a series of fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage — the static, the serial, and the dynamic — and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left behind — photomontages, paper blankets, stuffed rabbits, ghillie suits, and instructional films. Beginning in the domains of natural history and figurative art in the late nineteenth-century, continuing through the rise of aerial warfare in World War I, and onto the cinematic techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War II, this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide in plain sight. ...

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Hanna Rose Shell

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Autori Hanna R. Shell, Hanna Rose Shell, Hanna Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Shell, Hr Shell
Editore The MIT Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 04.05.2012
 
EAN 9781935408222
ISBN 978-1-935408-22-2
Pagine 256
Serie Zone Books
Hide & Seek
The MIT Press
Zone Books
Categorie Guide e manuali > Hobby, casa > Fotografia, cinematografia, riprese video
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV

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