Camera Obscura

Author : Lavie Tidhar
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857666017

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Camera Obscura by Lavie Tidhar Pdf

CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself. Extra! Extra! Read all about it – for the first time, also includes "Titanic", a short story from the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories. File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History | Reptilian Royalty | Murder Most Foul | The World's Fair ]

Author : Sarah Kofman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801485932

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Camera Obscura by Sarah Kofman Pdf

In her opening chapter on Marx, Kofman provides a reading of inversion as necessary to the ideological process. She then explores the metaphor of the camera obscura in Freud's description of the unconscious. For Nietzsche the camera obscura in a "metaphor for forgetting," and it is neither the photographic nor the eye but the mind that constructs a preeminence of the perspectival. Kofman asks here whether the "magical apparatus" of the camera obscura, rather than bringing about clarity, serves some thinkers as fetish. She turns to Descartes for a final counter-example, that of the Cartesian camera obscura as a model of vision which neither disqualifies the eye as a model of knowledge nor sets up a perspectivist notion of perception.

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192803026

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Vermeer's Camera by Philip Steadman Pdf

Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have drawn many to describe his work as "photographic." Indeed, many wonder if Vermeer employed a camera obscura, a primitive form of camera, to enhance his realistic effects? In Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman traces the development of the camera obscura--first described by Leonaro da Vinci--weighs the arguments that scholars have made for and against Vermeer's use of the camera, and offers a fascinating examination of the paintings themselves and what they alone can tell us of Vermeer's technique. Vermeer left no record of his method and indeed we know almost nothing of the man nor of how he worked. But by a close and illuminating study of the paintings Steadman concludes that Vermeer did use the camera obscura and shows how the inherent defects in this primitive device enabled Vermeer to achieve some remarkable effects--the slight blurring of image, the absence of sharp lines, the peculiar illusion not of closeness but of distance in the domestic scenes. Steadman argues that the use of the camera also explains some previously unexplainable qualities of Vermeer's art, such as the absence of conventional drawing, the pattern of underpainting in areas of pure tone, the pervasive feeling of reticence that suffuses his canvases, and the almost magical sense that Vermeer is painting not objects but light itself. Drawing on a wealth of Vermeer research and displaying an extraordinary sensitivity to the subtleties of the work itself, Philip Steadman offers in Vermeer's Camera a fresh perspective on some of the most enchanting paintings ever created.

Author : Lavie Tidhar
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857663009

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The Bookman Histories by Lavie Tidhar Pdf

An omnibus edition of the most exciting steampunk series of recent years. Lizard Kings and swashbuckling pirates, secret government agencies and scuttling automata, tripods and airships. There’s never been a series with quite so much adventure crammed between two covers! File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History! | Diabolical Anarchists! | Murder Most Foul | The End of Days ] From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0262522594

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Burning with Desire by Geoffrey Batchen Pdf

In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the medium's undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.

Author : Lavie Tidhar
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857665980

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The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar Pdf

In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead. In The Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations – and where nothing is quite as it seems. New 2016 edition includes the novelette “Murder in the Cathedral”. Discover, truthfully, what actually happened when Orphan visited Paris. File Under: Steampunk [Alternate Victorian London | Reptilian royalty | Diabolical anarchists | Extraordinary adventure!]

Author : Rebekah Modrak,Bill Anthes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415779197

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Reframing Photography by Rebekah Modrak,Bill Anthes Pdf

In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history, and technique to bring photographic education up to date with contemporary photographic practice. --

Author : John H. Hammond
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006765724

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The Camera Obscura, A Chronicle by John H. Hammond Pdf

The fascinating illustrated history of the original camera, an optical viewing device once widely used but now almost forgotten. This chronicle of its long history is told through the writings of those who made or used the camera obscura for scientific or artistic purposes, and those authors who recorded its varied uses. It recalls how this versatile instrument was used for astronomical observations, as a sketching aid by travellers and amateur artists, and on a grander scale as an entertainment or tourist attraction.

Author : Constance Penley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135201050

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Feminism and Film Theory by Constance Penley Pdf

First published in 1988. Feminism and Film Theory traces the major issues in feminist film theory as they have evolved over the last decade. Comprised of essays that are classics of this intellectually sophisticated area of cultural studies, Feminism and Film Theory makes available much sought after essays that are often difficult to find. Empha­sizing the polemical challenge of feminism to film theory, this anthology forces us to reconsider film theory's most basic ideas about genre, narrative, image, spec­tatorship, and audience. The essays offer a model for a politically engaged critique of contemporary thought. Feminism and Film Theory will be of great interest to students and scholars concerned with film, critical theory, art and media, cultural studies, or feminism.

Author : Helmut Gernsheim,Alison Gernsheim
Publisher : London : Thames & Hudson
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0500010609

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The History of Photography by Helmut Gernsheim,Alison Gernsheim Pdf

Author : Helmut Gernsheim,Alison Gernsheim
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015036315862

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The History of Photography from the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century Up to 1914 by Helmut Gernsheim,Alison Gernsheim Pdf

Author : Paul Lowe
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500545034

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A Chronology of Photography by Paul Lowe Pdf

A rich and fresh perspective on the history of photography, tracing the complex links between technological innovation, social change, and artistic intervention. As a medium of documentation, social commentary, commercial marketing, artistic exploration, and self-expression over the last two centuries, photography has in many ways defined the way we view ourselves and the world around us. A Chronology of Photography traces the development of the medium from early experiments with optics by artists and scientists, through the birth of photography in 1839, with the innovations of Louis Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot, right up to the present-day explosion of digital media, with Instagram and the selfie dominating visual discourse. Providing a unique timeline framework and in-depth commentary, this volume takes a purely chronological approach to present a fresh social, political, and cultural perspective on the subject. Tracing the complex links between technological innovation, social change, and artistic intervention, A Chronology of Photography is an invaluable and comprehensive overview of photography’s history including deeper explorations of key themes and moments.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1784876011

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Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes Pdf

Barthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout. Examining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. Strikingly personal, yet one of the most important early academic works on photography, Camera Lucida remains essential reading for anyone interested in the power of images. 'Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader' Guardian

Author : Hildebrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096822087

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Camera Obscura by Hildebrand Pdf

Author : Hildebrand (pseud. van Nicolaas Beets.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:UBL000040437

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Camera obscura by Hildebrand (pseud. van Nicolaas Beets.) Pdf