The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph
Kate Palmer Albers, "The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph"
English | ISBN: 0520381521 | 2021 | 168 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0520381521 | 2021 | 168 pages | PDF | 5 MB
We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen, condition of photography: its ephemerality.
Through a series of case studies spanning the history of photography,
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