Camera Works Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

Name: Camera Works Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word
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ISBN: 9780195173567

ISBN-10: 0195173562

ISBN-13: 9780195173567

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael North

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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,…

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List price: $52.25
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Introduction : mechanical recording and the modern arts



The logocinema of the little magazines



Camera work : the hieroglyphics of the new photography



Transition : the movies, the readies, and the revolution of the word



Close up : international modernism's struggle with sound



Spectatorship, media relations, and modern American fiction



F. Scott Fitzgerald's spectroscopic fiction



An eyeminded people : spectatorship in Dos Passos's U.S.A.



Du Bois, Johnson, and the recordings of race



Ernest Hemingway's media relations