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Shadow catchers : camera-less photography / Martin Barnes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Merrell, 2012.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: p. cmISBN:
  • 9781858945927 (hbk.)
  • 1858945925 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 771 BAR
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 771 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100464875

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The very first photographs of the nineteenth century were produced without the use of a camera. Today, having rediscovered camera-less techniques, a number of artists are using camera-less photography to create beautiful, startling images. Now available in an updated and fully revised edition, Shadow Catchers surveys the work of five leading practitioners - Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neusüss - who, by casting shadows on light- sensitive paper or by chemically manipulating its surface, capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The resulting pictures are consistently powerful, often with surreal effects and symbolic content. This is the first book to gather together the work of these key contemporary artists, revealing the technical processes and creative practices involved in their art. In an age of mass-produced imagery, Shadow Catchers offers a fascinating insight into a world of handcrafted photographsthat are at once visually striking and intellectually stimulating.

The very first photographs of the nineteenth century were produced without the use of a camera. Today, having rediscovered camera-less techniques, a number of artists are using camera-less photography to create beautiful, startling images. Now available in an updated and fully revised edition, Shadow Catchers surveys the work of five leading practitioners - Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neusüss - who, by casting shadows on light-sensitive paper or by chemically manipulating its surface, capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The resulting pictures are consistently powerful, often with surreal effects and symbolic content

Previous ed.: 2010.

Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

MARTIN BARNES is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books Illumine: Photographs by Garry Fabian Miller : A Retrospective and Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour were published by Merrell in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

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