Photography and the Art of Chance

As Anyone Who Has Wielded A Camera Knows, Photography Has A Unique Relationship To Chance. It Also Represents A Struggle To Reconcile Aesthetic Aspiration With A Mechanical Process. Robin Kelsey Reveals How Daring Innovators Expanded The Aesthetic Limits Of Photography In Order To Create Art For A Modern World. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. William Henry Fox Talbot And His Picture Machine -- 2. Defining Art Against The Mechanical, C. 1860 -- 3. Julia Margaret Cameron Transfigures The Glitch -- 4. The Fog Of Beauty, C. 1890 -- 5. Alfred Stieglitz Moves With The City -- 6. Stalking Chance And Making News, C. 1930 -- 7. Frederick Sommer Decomposes Our Nature -- 8. Pressing Photography Into A Modernist Mold, C. 1970 -- 9. John Baldessari Plays The Fool -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index Robin Kelsey. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English