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Looking Backward & Looking Forward: Process Photography in the United States, ca. 1970 /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Looking Backward & Looking Forward: Process Photography in the United States, ca. 1970 // William Green.
作者:	Green, William,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (367 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11B.
標題:	Art history. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31141256
ISBN:	9798382759302

Looking Backward & Looking Forward: Process Photography in the United States, ca. 1970 /
Green, William,

Looking Backward & Looking Forward: Process Photography in the United States, ca. 1970 /William Green. - 1 electronic resource (367 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

This dissertation explores American photography from the 1960s and 1970s through the critical lens of process. By process, I refer specifically to the material and chemical steps involved in the creation of a photographic object. The photographs discussed herein were made in the darkroom just as much, if not more, than in the outside world. I call such objects process photographs, a term of my own creation. For several decades prior to the spread of process photography in the sixties, art photography was virtually synonymous with "straight" photography, an aesthetic doctrine that restricted the materials and techniques a photographer could use in the darkroom on the basis of maintaining medium-specific purity. Yet amid the upheavals of the era, young photographers began to reject such modernist values. Some looked back to the medium's unruly nineteenth-century past, reviving antiquated processes that predated the industrial standardization of photographic materials. Others experimented with new imaging technologies, tinkering with their mechanical systems and exploring their untapped potential to create art.They produced a rich and diverse corpus of images, which I analyze through the themes of alchemy, interruption, weaving, and aftereffects. Chapter 1 is organized around the theme of alchemy, a process through which different elements are synthesized to yield a new object. Process photographers worked like alchemists when combination printing, solarizing and chemically staining prints, and employing other transformative darkroom effects. Their photographs tend to invite highly subjective interpretations, which I connect to Carl Jung's conception of psychological alchemy and the spiritual esotericism of sixties counterculture. Chapter 2 examines photographers who manually interrupted the photographic process. The resulting images often look spoiled, or somehow off, thereby interrupting the window-onto-the-world illusionism of photography and the passive viewing habits it encourages. Interruptions amounted to glitches that ran counter to the supposed rationality and infallibility of Cold War technology. Chapter 3 explores the work of process photographers who incorporated manual techniques, such as sewing and liquid emulsions, into their processes, thereby drawing attention to the hand, rather than the eye, of the photographer. Their work represented a weaving of new methods and subjectivities into the discursive fabric of photography. Chapter 4 considers aftereffect techniques, such as overpainting and hand-tinting, that occur after the initial photographic process has been completed. It closes by exploring the historical aftereffects of process photography through a study of contemporary artists whose works echo the central themes of this dissertation.

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Alternative process photography

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