Revisions
An Alternative History of Photography (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14528776 |
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| Authors | Helena Wright (0000-0002-5565-6950, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 816-817 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2000.0190 |
| OpenAlex | W2015709191 |
| Language | EN |
This volume, based largely on collections at the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television (a branch of the Science Museum) in Bradford, accompanied an exhibition held in spring 1999 to celebrate the reopening of the NMPFT after a major reorganization. It is not a traditional catalog, however, nor is it a history of photography, but rather an eclectic chronology, a series of short, episodic segments in which Ian Jeffrey moves from Talbot's and Daguerre's early work capturing shadows to recent color photos of space exploration. He regards technical developments as "moments of startlement," declaring that new mechanisms and formats "suddenly confronted operatives," surprising "both themselves and posterity" (p. 13)
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chronology · Exhibition · History of photography · Photography · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Photography and Visual Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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