Photography and failure : one medium's entanglement with flops, underdogs and disappointments / edited by Kris Belden-Adams.
Throughout photography's history, failure has played an essential, recurring part in the development and perceived value of this medium. Exploring a range of failures - individual and institutional, technological and historiographical - Photography and Failure asks what it means to fail and con...
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Table of Contents:
- List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Noble Failure: Photography as Tragic MuseKris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi, USA2. 'Nothing Worthy of Notice'?: The Daguerreian Gallery of T. P. and D. C. Collins in PhiladelphiaAnne Verplanck, Pennsylvania State University, USA3. Rodchenko's Photographic CommunismTodd Cronan, Emory University, USA4.Exile and Erasure: Forgetting Ilse BingDonna West Brett, University of Sydney, Australia5. Mechanisms of Institutional Failure, or the Impossible National Museum of French PhotographyEléonore Challine, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan, France6. Crimes Seen and Unseen: Fantasies and Failures of Photographic Truth in Joel Sternfeld's On This Site and Trevor Paglen's Limit TelephotographyCatherine Zuromskis, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA7. Toward an Ontology of African Studio PortraitureAllison Moore, University of South Florida, USA8. Composita, the 'Mascot' of the Smith College Class of 1886: Picturing Sisterhood, Social Caste, Gender RolesKris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi, USA9. Capturing the Invisible: Affect, Loss and the Problematics of the Panoramic Image in Josef Sudek's Sad LandscapesAmy Hughes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA10. Default Delete: Photographic Archives in a Digital AgeKate Palmer Albers, University of Arizona, USA11. Copies and Clouds: Charles Nègre and the Death of EmulationJacob W. Lewis, University of Rochester, USA12. Thirty Times Failed: Valério Vieira and Experimental Photography in BrazilCezar Tadeu Bartholomeu, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil13. Success and Failure in African PhotographyKevin Mulhearn, University of New Mexico, USA14. Afterword: Failure, Beautiful FailureGeoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandBibliographyIndex.