03079nam 22005655 450 991016271380332120230126214940.00-226-37033-X10.7208/9780226370330(CKB)3710000001032960(MiAaPQ)EBC4789524(StDuBDS)EDZ0001640050(DE-B1597)524917(OCoLC)970658257(DE-B1597)9780226370330(EXLCZ)99371000000103296020191022d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPhotography, Trace, and Trauma /Margaret IversenChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (170 pages)Previously issued in print: 2017.0-226-37016-X 0-226-37002-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Exposure -- 2. Indexicality: A Trauma of Signification -- 3. Analogue: On Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean -- 4. Casting, Rubbing, Making Strange -- 5. Index, Diagram, Graphic Trace -- 6. The "Unrepresentable" -- 7. Invisible Traces: Postscript on Thomas Demand -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexPhotography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer-similar to what happens when a traumatic event bypasses consciousness and lodges deeply in the unconscious mind. Photography, Trace, and Trauma takes a groundbreaking look at photographic art and works in other media that explore this important analogy. Examining photography and film, molds, rubbings, and more, Margaret Iversen considers how these artistic processes can be understood as presenting or simulating a residue, trace, or "index" of a traumatic event. These approaches, which involve close physical contact or the short-circuiting of artistic agency, are favored by artists who wish to convey the disorienting effect and elusive character of trauma. Informing the work of a number of contemporary artists-including Tacita Dean, Jasper Johns, Mary Kelly, Gabriel Orozco, and Gerhard Richter-the concept of the trace is shown to be vital for any account of the aesthetics of trauma; it has left an indelible mark on the history of photography and art as a whole.PhotographySocial aspectsanalogue.chance.digitization.exposure.indexicality.photography.trace.trauma.PhotographySocial aspects.770Iversen Margaret, 751816DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910162713803321Photography trace and trauma1511311UNINA