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Negative/Positive - A History of Photography (Paperback)
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Negative/Positive - A History of Photography (Paperback)
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As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative,
a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless
usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather
than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a
photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations
means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and
multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often
spread out over time and space and could involve more than one
person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies
of a given image and for that image to have many different looks,
sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for
canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot,
Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keita, Richard
Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of
related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from
the business practices of professional photographers to the
repetition of pose and setting that is so central to certain
familiar photographic genres. Ranging from the daguerreotype to the
digital image, the end result is a kind of little history of
photography, partial and episodic, but no less significant a
rendition of the photographic experience for being so. This book
represents a summation of Batchen's work to date, making it be
essential reading for students and scholars of photography and for
all those interested in the history of the medium
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