1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459671603321

Autore

Langford Martha

Titolo

Scissors, paper, stone [[electronic resource] ] : expressions of memory in contemporary photographic art / / Martha Langford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-86730-X

9786612867309

0-7735-7686-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

700/.1/08

Soggetti

Memory in art

Photography, Artistic

Photography - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : scissors, paper, stone -- Remembering and forgetting -- Lives of the artists -- Reflections on reflection -- A forgotten man -- Memory/false memory -- Memory and imagination -- Exchange places -- Object-image-memory -- Persistent paths -- Mimics -- Memory and history -- Agit-prompters -- Repossessions -- The pictures that we have -- Flashbulb memories? -- Markers -- Conclusion : is photography an art of memory?