| Image & Imagination Contributor(s): Langford (Author), Langford, Martha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773529691 ISBN-13: 9780773529694 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore the crucial role of the imagination in photography from 19th-century studio portraiture to 21st-century digital innovations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Criticism - Photography | History - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries |
| Dewey: 779.074 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 7.26" W x 10.98" (2.32 lbs) 327 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Photography and reality are inextricably linked but, whether one is being photographed, making a photograph, or looking at a photograph, photography is an act of the imagination. In nine original essays, art historians and cultural theorists break with photographic tradition to explore the crucial role of the imagination in photography from nineteenth-century studio portraiture to twenty-first-century digital innovations. Drawing on the twenty-nine exhibitions of Le Mois de la Photo Montr al 2005, Image & Imagination features the work of sixty contemporary artists from Canada, Australia, the United States, France, England, Haiti, and Japan, including Marc Audette, Iain Baxter, Diane Borsato, Denis Farley, Alain Bublex, Michel Campeau, Destiny Deacon, Evergon, Adad Hannah, David Hlynsky, Tracey Moffatt, Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison, Lynne Marsh, Polixeni Papapetrou, Martin Parr, Ramona Ramlochand, Carolee Schneemann, Michael Snow, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie. |