Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art

by Martha Langford

Finalist: Raymond Klibansky Book Prize Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (2008) Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing memory is, first and foremost, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773532110
• ISBN13: 9780773532113
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 8.5"