Scissors, Paper, Stone Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art

Name: Scissors, Paper, Stone Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art
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ISBN: 9780773540781

ISBN-10: 0773540784

ISBN-13: 9780773540781

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Authors: Martha Langford

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Finalist: Raymond Klibansky Book Prize Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (2008) Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing memory is, first and foremost, the expression of a mental process. Langford organizes the book around the conceit of the child's game scissors, paper, stone, using it to ground her discussion of the tensions between remembering and forgetting, the intersection of memory and…

Book details

List price: $45.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 9.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Martha Langford is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Canadian Art History.