Camera Works

Camera Works
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 282
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0195173562
ISBN-13 : 9780195173567
Rating : 4/5 (567 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Camera Works by : Michael North

Download or read book Camera Works written by Michael North and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means of representation, neither linguistic nor pictorial, but hovering in a kind of utopian space between. At the same time, the new media introduced a dramatic element of novelty into the age-old evidence of the senses. For the avant-garde, the challenges of the new media were the modern in its most concentrated form, but even for aesthetically unadventurous writers they constituted an element of modern experience that could hardly be ignored.Camera Works thus traces some of the more utopian projects of the transatlantic avant-garde, including the Readie machine of Bob Brown, which was to turn stories and poems into strips of linguistic film. The influence of photography and film on the avant-garde is traced from the early days of Camera Work, through the enthusiasm of Eugene Jolas and the contributors to his magazine transition, to the crisis created by the introduction of sound in the late 1920s.Subsequent chapters describe the entirely new kind of sensory enjoyment brought into modern American fiction by the new media. What Fitzgerald calls "spectroscopic gayety," the enjoyable disorientation of the senses by machine perception, turns out to be a powerful force in much American fiction. The revolutionary possibilities of this new spectatorship and its limitations are pursued through a number of examples, including Dos Passos, James Weldon Johnson, and Hemingway. Together, these chapters offer a new and substantially different account of the relationship between modern American literature and the mediatized society of the early twentieth century.With a comprehensive introduction and detailed particular readings, Camera Works substantiates a new understanding of the formal and historical bases of modernism. It argues that when modern literature and art respond to modernity, on a formal level, they are responding to the intervention of technology in the transmission of meaning, an intervention that unsettles all the terms in the essential relationship of human consciousness to the world of phenomena.


Camera Works Related Books

Camera Works
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Michael North
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. For many artists and writers, these new media offered hope of new means o
Camera Works
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Michael North
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazine and from classi
Transparencies
Language: en
Pages: 189
Authors: Stephen Shore
Categories: Photography, Artistic
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-05 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979' offers an alternative account of one of the most fabled episodes in photographic history: the cross-country journ
How Camera Works
Language: en
Pages: 47
Authors: N. Chokkan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-12 - Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

‘Click’. That’s the most familiar sound a modern man would recognize and smile at. No, No. We are not talking about the computer ‘click’s here. Many y
This Book Is a Camera
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Kelli Anderson
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-20 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a working camera that pops up from the pages of a book..The book concisely explains--and actively demonstrates--how a structure as humble as a folded pi