Transformational imagemaking : handmade photography since 1960

Hirsch, Robert 1949- (author.).

Summary: This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with more than 40 key artists, this book explores a diverse group of curious experimentalists who have propelled the medium's evolution by visualizing their subject matter as it originates from their mind's eye. Many favor the historical techniques commonly known as alternative photographic processes, but all these makers demonstrate that the real alternative is found in their mental approach and not in their use of physical methods. Within this context, photographer and photography historian Robert Hirsch outlines the varied approaches these artists have utilized to question conventional photographic practices, to convey internal realities, and to examine what constitutes photographic reality. Hirsch explores the half-century evolution of these concepts and methodologies and their popularity among contemporary imagemakers who are merging digital and analog processes to express what was thought to be photographically inexpressible. Read an interview with the author at Photo.net: http://photo.net/learn/photographer-interviews/robert-hirsch.

Record details

ISBN: 9781317818366
ISBN: 1317818369
ISBN: 9781138458048
ISBN: 113845804X
ISBN: 0415810264
ISBN: 9780415810265
ISBN: 9781306320160
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Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Burlington, MA : Focal Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The photographer's hand -- Fingerprints -- A concise historic overview -- Realer than real -- The 1960s zeitgeist -- The haptic personality -- An American hybrid of new realism -- West Coast roots -- Ground breaking exhibitions -- East Coast makers -- Progression -- Evolution -- Inferences.
Information Relating to Copyright Status:	Copyright © Focal Press 2014 2014
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.