Time and Photography
Jan Baetens (Editor), Alexander Streitberger (Editor), Hilde Van Gelder (Editor),
Series: Lieven Gevaert Series 10
Category: Art, Media and Visual Culture, Photography
Language: English
ISBN: 9789462701472
Publication date: April 10, 2018
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Size: 230 x 170 x 10 mm
Number of illustrations: 70
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Despite our stereotypical ideas on photographic images as a snapshots (slices of time), photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: time can be directly represented within the image, it can be its theme and philosophical horizon, but it can also represent the global framework in which photographic practices develop and change through time. It is the ambition of this book to bring together the various aspect of time in photography as well as of photography in time, and to illustrate them in a series of case studies that focus on seminal authors (e.g. Fox Talbot, Victor Burgin, Robert Morris) and genres (e.g. spirit photography, montage photobooks and tableau photography), with examples ranging from the very first photographic pictures to the most recent cross-medial uses of photography in and outside art. Given the multifaceted dimensions of the notion of time, the book fosters an interdisciplinary approach, gathering essays by photohistorians as well as by authors with a critical or philosophical background. It foregrounds also reading methods of photography that are indebted to fields that have a great expertise in analyzing time such as narratology and literature. Written by international specialists for a non-specialist audience and displaying extraordinary breadth and erudition, this book reshapes our vision of photography in order to include many crucial yet overlooked aspects of time, culture and art.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)
Introduction
Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder
Part 1 Time and Technology / Devices for Time
Fixing Transience: Photography and other Images of Time in 1830s London
Chitra Ramalingam
Spooked Time: The Temporal Dimensions of Spirit Photography
Louis Kaplan
Modern Time: Revisiting the Tableau
Joanna Lowry
Part 2 Returning Time / Memory / Order
Time and Memory in William Henry Fox Talbot’s Calotypes of Oxford and David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson’s of St Andrews
Graham Smith
Between Present and Past: Photographic Portugal of the 1950s
Susana S. Martins
Time and Order: Self-reflective Strategies in Photo Essays
Maren Polte
Part 3 Cinematic Time / Duration and Fragment
The Eclipse of Time
Victor Burgin
Suspended Relationships: The Montage Photography Books of Moshe Raviv Vorobeichic
Andrea Nelson
‘An image of an image’: Photography and Robert Morris’s Continuous Project Altered Daily
David Green
Notes on the authors
Jan Baetens
Jan Baetens is professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at KU Leuven.
Alexander Streitberger
Alexander Streitberger is professor of art history at UCLouvain.
Hilde Van Gelder
Hilde Van Gelder is professor of art history at KU Leuven.
Time, Again, Now
Time and Photography is an anthology of essays that returns us to what has to be one of photographytheory's most familiar and perennial concerns, namely, the variety, character and sense of photographic temporality.
Philosophy of Photography volume 1, issue 2, reviewed by Andrew Fisher, Goldsmiths College, London
Frequently Asked Questions
What is "Time and Photography" about?
Despite our stereotypical ideas on photographic images as a snapshots (slices of time), photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: time can be directly represented within the image, it can be its theme and philosophical horizon, but it can also represent the global framework in which photographic practices develop and change through time. It is the ambition of this book to bring together the various aspect of time in photography as well as of photography in time, and to illustrate them in a series of case studies that focus on seminal authors (e.g. Fox Talbot, Victor Burgin, Robert Morris) and genres (e.g. spirit photography, montage photobooks and tableau photography), with examples ranging from the very first photographic pictures to the most recent cross-medial uses of photography in and outside art. Given the multifaceted dimensions of the notion of time, the book fosters an interdisciplinary approach, gathering essays by photohistorians as well as by authors with a critical or philosophical background. It foregrounds also reading methods of photography that are indebted to fields that have a great expertise in analyzing time such as narratology and literature. Written by international specialists for a non-specialist audience and displaying extraordinary breadth and erudition, this book reshapes our vision of photography in order to include many crucial yet overlooked aspects of time, culture and art.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)
Who edited "Time and Photography"?
"Time and Photography" was edited by Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder.
Jan Baetens is professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at KU Leuven.
Alexander Streitberger is professor of art history at UCLouvain.
Hilde Van Gelder is professor of art history at KU Leuven.
Is "Time and Photography" part of a series?
Yes, "Time and Photography" is part of the "Lieven Gevaert Series" series. It's book 10 in the series.
The series covers four types of publications:
- outstanding monographic studies
- multi-authored volumes on a specific topic
- book length projects with artists
- translations and/or reprints of classic texts.
All books are published in English and are written for an international audience of scholars.
Format
All books in the series are published in 17*23 cm paperback with French flaps, printed in black and white on white maco paper and with a maximum page extent of 300 pages (120.000 words) including images (unless agreed otherwise).
Authors interested in publishing their book in Open Access can check out the funding options here. Open access books are published under a creative commons license.
Series editors
Hilde Van Gelder, KU Leuven
Alexander Streitberger, UCLouvain
Proposals
Proposals and enquiries can be sent to the series editors.
Please make use of the submission form to present the full manuscript to our board.
Authors interested in Open Access can consult the available funding options.
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What is the Table of Contents for "Time and Photography"?
Introduction
Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder
Part 1 Time and Technology / Devices for Time
Fixing Transience: Photography and other Images of Time in 1830s London
Chitra Ramalingam
Spooked Time: The Temporal Dimensions of Spirit Photography
Louis Kaplan
Modern Time: Revisiting the Tableau
Joanna Lowry
Part 2 Returning Time / Memory / Order
Time and Memory in William Henry Fox Talbot's Calotypes of Oxford and David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson's of St Andrews
Graham Smith
Between Present and Past: Photographic Portugal of the 1950s
Susana S. Martins
Time and Order: Self-reflective Strategies in Photo Essays
Maren Polte
Part 3 Cinematic Time / Duration and Fragment
The Eclipse of Time
Victor Burgin
Suspended Relationships: The Montage Photography Books of Moshe Raviv Vorobeichic
Andrea Nelson
'An image of an image': Photography and Robert Morris's Continuous Project Altered Daily
David Green
Notes on the authors
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