Photography, Temporality, and Modernity: Time Warped

By Kris Belden-Adams

Book Overview

This book examines the photography's unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium's ability to capture and sometimes "defy" time, while also traveling as objects across time-and-space nexuses. The book features studies of understudied, widespread, practices: studio portraiture, motion studies, panoramas, racing photo finishes, composite college class pictures, planetary photography, digital montages, and extended-exposure images. A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time, and the anxiety its passage provokes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103233861X
• ISBN13: 9781032338613
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"