Cameraless Photography
WW Norton · Hardcover · April 23, 2019
This volume is a remarkable historical survey of photographic images created without a camera.
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- Who it’s for
- A concise history of camera-free photographic images, spanning early chemical experiments to recent digital processes.
- Themes
- Cameraless photography, Photographic techniques, History of photography
- Genres
- Photography Techniques, History of Photography
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This volume is a remarkable historical survey of photographic images created without a camera. Cameraless Photography presents a concise historical overview of photographic images created independently of a camera. It surveys the corresponding techniques—including photograms, chemigrams, luminograms, dye destruction prints, and more—used to create those images.
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The book features one hundred key images from more than one hundred and seventy years of history, ranging from the earliest experiments in chemical photography, such as those by Anna Atkins in the nineteenth century, through seminal avant-garde photograms of modernists such as Man Ray in the 1920s and 1930s to the latest digital processes by Susan Derges. Visually compelling, Cameraless Photography is an outstanding introduction to the significant cameraless processes used throughout the history of photography and the cameraless work of some of photography’s greatest names.
Camera-Free Processes
A concise history of camera-free photographic images, spanning early chemical experiments to recent digital processes.
Come here for
- Photograms, chemigrams, luminograms, and dye destruction prints
- Images by Anna Atkins, Man Ray, and Susan Derges
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- A survey of techniques used to make images without a camera
- One hundred key images across more than 170 years
Where it sits
| History of Photography | 67% |
|---|---|
| Photography Techniques | 55% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Photography
- Museum Photography Collections
- Authors
- Martin Barnes
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- April 23, 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Cameraless photography · Photographic techniques · History of photography
- Reading lane
- Photography