Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

by Michael North

Book Overview

Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195332938
• ISBN13: 9780195332933
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"