Vision anew : the lens and screen arts / edited by Adam Bell and Charles H. Traub.
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]Description: xv, 292 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42839ISBN: 9780520284708 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Photography, Artistic | Photographic criticism | Photography -- Digital techniques | Video art | Interactive art | Internet videos | PhotographyDDC classification: 770.1 BEL LOC classification: TR642 | .V57 2015Summary: The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. 'Vision Anew' brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. Vision Anew brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts.
Presenting essays on photography and the moving image alongside engaging interviews with artists and filmmakers, Vision Anew offers an inspired assessment of the medium's ongoing importance in the digital era. Contributors include Ai Weiwei, Gerry Badger, David Campany, Lev Manovich, Christian Marclay, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Murch, Trevor Paglen, Pipilotti Rist, Shelly Silver, Rebecca Solnit, and Alec Soth, among others. This vital collection is essential reading for artists, educators, scholars, critics, and curators, and anyone who is passionate about the lens-based arts.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. 'Vision Anew' brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. xi)
- Foreword (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 From The Lens
- 1 Photography Is (1961) (p. 8)
- 2 Keep It Simple Stupid, Just Make a Good Picture: The Basics of Photography (2012) (p. 9)
- 3 Excerpt from A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads (2008) (p. 15)
- 4 Photographs about Photographs (2010) (p. 23)
- 5 On Books and Photography (2012) (p. 29)
- 6 Stillness, Depth, and Movement Reconnected (2012) (p. 36)
- 7 A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? (2010) (p. 48)
- 8 If You See Something, Say Something: Why We Need to Talk about and Teach Visual Literacy, Now (2014) (p. 64)
- Part 2 Vision and Motion
- 9 Excerpt from Vision in Motion (1947) (p. 70)
- 10 Stillness (2008) (p. 72)
- 11 The Annihilation of Time and Space (2004) (p. 89)
- 12 On Editing and Structure (2002) (p. 104)
- 13 Flickering Screens (2008) (p. 106)
- 14 A Lecture (1968) (p. 109)
- 15 Flatness/Depth. Still/Moving. Photography/Cinema. (2012) (p. 114)
- 16 HD Vision (2012) (p. 129)
- 17 Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality (2007) (p. 136)
- 18 Seeing around the Edge of the Frame (2001) (p. 152)
- 19 Sensorial Cinema: Conjectures/Conversations (2014) (p. 154)
- 20 Reconquering Space and the Screen (2005) (p. 166)
- 21 Looking and Being Looked At (2014) (p. 172)
- 22 It's about Time (2013) (p. 179)
- Part 3 Old Medium/New Forms
- 23 Photography and the Future (2010) (p. 192)
- 24 Machine-Seeing (2012) (p. 195)
- 25 There Is Only Software (2011) (p. 203)
- 26 Google Street View: The World Is Our Studio (2011) (p. 207)
- 27 Exploring Options (2011) (p. 212)
- 28 On (2014) (p. 218)
- 29 Sharing Makes the Picture (2012) (p. 231)
- 30 Posits and Questions (2014) (p. 240)
- 31 Capture/Curate Touch/Play: Reality Is the New Fiction (2014) (p. 243)
- 32 A Post-photographic Manifesto (2011) (p. 254)
- 33 Feedback Manifesto (2010) (p. 262)
- 34 Ant!foto and the Antifoto Manifesto (2013) (p. 264)
- 35 Creative Interlocutors: A Manifesto (1997) (p. 265)
- Notes (p. 269)
- List of Contributors (p. 285)
- Credits (p. 291)
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