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Photography and the Art of Chance

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Photography and the Art of Chance

By Robin Kelsey

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About the book

Photography has a unique relationship to chance. Anyone who has wielded a camera has taken a picture ruined by an ill-timed blink or enhanced by an unexpected gesture or expression. Although this proneness to chance may amuse the casual photographer, Robin Kelsey points out that historically it has been a mixed blessing for those seeking to make photographic art. On the one hand, it has weakened the bond between maker and picture, calling into question what a photograph can be said to say. On th...Show more

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9780674744004

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Photography and the Art of Chance

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Hardcover

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