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Hide and Seek - Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Hardcover)
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Hide and Seek - Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Hardcover)
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A history and theory of the drive to hide in plain sight.
Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic
representation. In Hide and Seek, Hanna Rose Shell traces the
evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to
technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and
as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is
commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and
browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself to be much more-a
set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and
permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the
twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by
photographic and cinematic intervention. Through a series of
fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked
species of photographic camouflage-the static, the serial, and the
dynamic-and shows how each not only reflects the type of
photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also
contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek
develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left
behind: photomontages, paper blankets, stuffed rabbits, ghillie
suits, and instructional films. Beginning with natural history and
figurative art in the late nineteenth-century, continuing through
the rise of aerial warfare in World War I, and onto the cinematic
techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War
II, this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide
in plain sight.
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