Lyle Rexer: The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in

Lyle Rexer: The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. Now available in an affordable paperback edition, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle Rexer examines abstraction at pivotal moments, starting with the inception of photography, when many of the pioneers believed the camera might reveal other aspects of reality. The Edge of Vision traces subsequent explorations--from the Photo-Secessionists, who emphasized process and emotional expression over observed reality, to Modernist and Surrealist experiments. In the decades to follow, in particular from the 1950s through the 1980s, a multitude of photographers--Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind, Barbara Kasten, Ellen Carey and James Welling among them--took up abstraction from a variety of positions. Finally, Rexer explores the influence the history of abstraction exerts on contemporary thinking about the medium. Many contemporary artists--most prominently Penelope Umbrico, Michael Flomen, and Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin--reject classic definitions of photographyâ€™s documentary dimension in favor of other conceptually inflected possibilities, somewhere between painting and sculpture, that include the manipulation of process and printing. In addition to Rexerâ€™s engagingly written and richly illustrated history, this volume includes a selection of primary texts from and interviews with key practitioners and critics, such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, LÃ¡szlÃ³ Moholy-Nagy, Gottfried JÃ¤gger, Silvio Wolf and Walead Beshty.
Country USA
Brand Aperture
Manufacturer Aperture
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
ReleaseDate 2013-09-30
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781597112420

Country	USA
Brand	Aperture
Manufacturer	Aperture
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations
ReleaseDate	2013-09-30
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781597112420

Lyle Rexer: The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography

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