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Picture industry : a provisional history of the technical image 1844-2018  Cover Image Book Book

Picture industry : a provisional history of the technical image 1844-2018

Beshty, Walead, 1976- (editor.). Eccles, Tom, 1964- (writer of foreword.). Hoffmann, Maja, 1956- (writer of foreword.).

Summary: Curated by artist Walead Beshty, the exhibition Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as a scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on the viewer. The exhibition complexifies traditional accounts of the medium, drawing on its application within science and the humanities to contemporary art, and includes works and photographic documents by over 70 artists and practitioners spanning the late 19th century to the present. It posits a provisional, alternative history of the optical image, breaking with both the technologically deterministic approach of aesthetic formalism, and the semiotic fixations of postmodernism, and on this basis reflects anew on the contemporary condition of image production. Picture Industry considers not only the materiality of images and the technologies that form their reception, but also the conflicted social history that lies under their surfaces and shapes our complex contemporary image world.00Exhibition: Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, USA (24.06.-15.12.2017).

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  • ISBN: 9783037645024
  • ISBN: 3037645024
  • Physical Description: print
    863 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: [Feldmeilen, Switzerland] : LUMA Foundation ; [2018]
  • Distributor: Zürich : JRP Ringier Kunstverlag

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Foreword / Maja Hoffmann and Tom Eccles -- Introduction: The commons in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walead Beshty -- Taken from here to where it came from and taken to a place and used in such a manner that it can only remain as a representation of what it was where it came from (1980) / Lawrence Weiner -- Introductory remarks and selected plates from Pencil of Nature (1844-46) / William Henry Fox Talbot -- A scene in a library: The first photographically illustrated book (1998) / Carol Armstrong -- The stereoscope and stereograph (1859) / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Selections from mechanism of human facial expression (1862) / Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne -- Photographs of the high Rockies in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. CCXXXII, No.39, September 1869 / John Samson [likely a pseudonym of Timothy H. O'Sullivan] -- Photography's discursive spaces (1986) / Rosalind E. Krauss -- Naming the view (1990) / Alan Trachtenberg -- United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, volume III: Mining industry (1870) / James D. Hague and Clarence King -- Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Vol. 1 (1857) / William H. Emory -- Prefatory note and preface to United States Geological Survey of the Territories, descriptive catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians (1877) / Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden and William Henry Jackson -- Colorchromes from the Detroit Photographic Company (1892-1903) / William Henry Jackson -- Carte de visite (1864) / Sojourner Truth -- Introduction to Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance (2015) / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- The golden Caribbean, Vol. II, No. 1, January 1904 / United Fruit Company -- The evidence of things not photographed: Slavery and historical memory in the British West Indies (2011) / Krista Thompson -- The other half and how they live: Story in pictures [Reconstruction of a magic lantern slide lecture presented at the Sixth Annual Convention of Christian Workers] (1891) / Jacob Riis -- How the other half lives: Studies among the tenements in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 6, December 1889 / Jacob Riis -- Inquiries into human faculty and its development (1883) / Francis Galton -- Physiological study of normal walking (1885) / Georges Gilles de la Tourette -- Notes on gesture (2000) / Giorgio Agamben -- Selections from Theoretical Study of Signalment (1896) / Alphonse Bertillon -- Bertillon system of criminal identification [selected by Cameron Rowland] (2018) / National Law Enforecement website --
Subject: Photography -- Printing processes -- Exhibitions
Image processing -- Exhibitions

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