The Instant and Its Shadow: A Story of Photography

by Jean-Christophe Bailly

Book Overview

A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses time

Two photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a century. First, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed a faithfully realistic image of a ladder against a haystack in the English countryside.One hundred years later, an anonymous photographer captured another ladder, "photographed" alongside an incinerated man by the blinding light of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823287440
• ISBN13: 9780823287444
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"