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Passages in Time (Paperback)
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Offers a unique and critical witness to significant historic
photographs, from the period of the inception of photography to the
Edwardian era. Asserts historic photographs as vivid and lyrical
artefacts which live both as a source of enrichment in contemporary
artistic experience, and as documentary witness to our own age.
Shows photography as an art in intimate cultural conjunction with
painting and literature. We cannot travel back into the past! In
the garish light of the blaze of contemporary 'selfies' and of the
digital editing of photographs, photography has lost contact with
the abstract impact and the purity of dimension of historic
photography. Historic photography offers, instead, a unique and
vivid witness to the lived experience of the past - in our own age.
In his new book Keith Steiner brings us face to face with historic
photographs as both the camera's memories, and as definitive and
enduring entities of the present. He explores how our perceptual
dialogue with historic imagery is also an encounter with the bias
rooted in our register of the literary, the optical, and the
cultural. Keith Steiner's authoritative, perceptive, illuminating,
and penetrating text focuses key examples of historic photography
in their fullness of register as artistic, perceptual, philosophic
and cultural jewels. These mysterious, haunting photographs are
thus revealed by the author in the full light of our age as
sometime lyrical, metaphorical encounters of prose and poetry; and
equally, and eternally, as of the fabric and geometry of now.
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