On the camera arts and consecutive matters : the writings of Hollis Frampton / edited with an introduction by Bruce Jenkins.

By:

Frampton, Hollis, 1936-1984

Contributor(s):

Jenkins, Bruce, 1952-

Material type: Text

026252760X
9780262527606

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.43 FRA

Contents:

Collecting his thoughts : remarks on the writings of Hollis Frampton / Bruce Jenkins -- Photography -- Some propositions on photography -- Digressions on the photographic agony -- Eadweard Muybridge : fragments of a tesseract -- Incisions in history/segments of eternity -- A talk on photography and history : time, space, and causality -- Meditations around Paul Strand -- Impromptus on Edward Weston : everything in its place -- Lecture notes on Edward Weston -- Erotic predicaments for camera -- Fictcryptokrimsographology -- Pictures, krims\'s pictures, please! -- Notes on Marion Faller\'s photographs -- Proposal for ADSVMVS ABSVMVS -- ADSVMVS ABSVMVS -- Film -- A lecture -- For a metahistory of film : commonplace notes and hypotheses -- A pentagram for conjuring the narrative -- Notes on composing in film -- Letter to Stan Brakhage -- Letter to Donald Richie -- Letter to the Editor, Artforum -- Film in the House of the word -- The invention without a future -- Interview at the video data bank -- Notes on filmmakers -- Zorns Lemma : script and notations -- (nostalgia) : voice-over narration for a film of that name -- Notes on (nostalgia) -- Envoi -- Statement of plans for Magellan -- Phrases. Mag -- Talking about Magellan : an interview -- Text of intertitles for Gloria! -- Mental notes -- Video and the digital arts -- The withering away of the state of the art -- Proposa : hardware and software for computer-processed and -generated video -- About the digital arts lab -- The other arts -- Letter to Enno Develing -- Preface : 12 dialogues 1962-1963 -- On plasticity and consecutive matters -- A note on Robert Huot\'s diaries -- Inconclusions for Patrick Clancy -- Comic relief -- Two left feet -- Letter to Macalester College -- Notes : by any other name -- Texts -- A stipulation of terms from maternal Hopi -- Mind over matter.

Review: As Hollis Frampton\'s photographs and retreated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were alternating to establish an intellectually resonate form of discourse for these critically underemplored fields. This collection of Frampton\'s writings presents his critical essays (many writer for Artforum and October) along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews, production notes, and scripts, it replaces - and supersedes - the long unavailable Circles of confession, published in 1983--Jacket.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	791.43 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100622811

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material. As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of "the camera arts" in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellectually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields. It was a time when artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and produce films and videotapes, well before these practices were understood or embraced by institutions of contemporary art. This collection of Frampton's writings presents his critical essays (many written for Artforum and October ) along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews, and production notes and scripts. It replaces-and supersedes-the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion , published in 1983. Frampton ranged widely over the visual arts in his writing, and the texts in this collection display his unique approaches to photography, film, and video, as well as the plastic and literary arts. They include critically acclaimed essays on Edward Weston and Eadweard Muybridge as well as appraisals of contemporary photographers; the influential essay, "For a Metahistory of Film," along with scripts, textual material, and scores for his films; writings on video that constitute a prehistory of the digital arts; a dialogue with Carl Andre (his friend and former Phillips Andover classmate) from the early 1960s; and two inventive, almost unclassifiable pieces that are reminiscent of Borges, Joyce, and Beckett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

As Hollis Frampton\'s photographs and retreated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were alternating to establish an intellectually resonate form of discourse for these critically underemplored fields. This collection of Frampton\'s writings presents his critical essays (many writer for Artforum and October) along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews, production notes, and scripts, it replaces - and supersedes - the long unavailable Circles of confession, published in 1983--Jacket.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Among his best-known works are (nostalgia), Zorns Lemma, and the unfinished epic film cycle Magellan . He was one of the founders of the Digital Arts Laboratory in the Center for Media Study at SUNY Buffalo.

Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.