Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination

by Kate Flint

Flash presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the sublimity of lightning. Yet it has also been reviled: it's inseparable from anxieties about intrusion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198808267
• ISBN13: 9780198808268
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 10.4"