Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects

by Lisa Saltzman

In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of photography and raised questions about its truth value as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022624203X
• ISBN13: 9780226242033
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.4"