Flash! Flint Kate Provost Professor of Art History and English University of Southern California Pevná vazba
Flash! Flint Kate Provost Professor of Art History and English University of Southern California Pevná vazba Flash presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its…
Specifikacia Flash! Flint Kate Provost Professor of Art History and English University of Southern California Pevná vazba
Flash! Flint Kate Provost Professor of Art History and English University of Southern California Pevná vazba
Flash presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the sublimity of lightning. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright.
It looks at flash's distinct aesthetics, examines Yet it has also been reviled: it's inseparable from anxieties about intrusion and violence, it creates a visual disturbance, and its effects are often harsh and create exaggerated contrasts.Flash explores flash's power to reveal shocking social conditions, its impact on the representation of race, its illumination of what would otherwise remain hidden in darkness, and its capacity to put on display the most mundane corners of everyday life.