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The Night Albums - by Kate Palmer Albers (Paperback)

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  • We live in an era of abundant photography.
  • About the Author: Kate Palmer Albers is the author of Uncertain Histories: Accumulation, Inaccessibility, and Doubt in Contemporary Photography and coeditor of Before-and-After Photography: Histories and Contexts.
  • 168 Pages
  • Photography, History

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About the Book



"We live in an era of abundant photography. It may then seem counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern, but Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen, condition of photography: its ephemerality. Through a series of case studies spanning the history of photography, The Night Albums takes up the provocations of artists who collectively redefine how we experience visibility. From the protracted hesitancies of photography's origins, to conceptual and performative art that has emerged since the 1960s, and to the waves of technological experimentation flourishing today, Albers foregrounds artists who offer fleeting, hidden, conditional, and future modes of visibility. By unveiling how ephemerality shapes the photographic experience, she ultimately proposes an expanded framework for the medium"--



Book Synopsis



We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen, condition of photography: its ephemerality.

Through a series of case studies spanning the history of photography, The Night Albums takes up the provocations of artists who collectively redefine how we experience visibility. From the protracted hesitancies of photography's origins, to conceptual and performative art that has emerged since the 1960s, to the waves of technological experimentation flourishing today, Albers foregrounds artists who offer fleeting, hidden, conditional, and future modes of visibility. By unveiling how ephemerality shapes the photographic experience, she ultimately proposes an expanded framework for the medium.



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"Simply mind-blowing--this book alters our perceptions of what photography was, is, and could be. Albers shakes up old notions of photography by offering a most lucid exploration of practices and discourses past and present that undermine photography's stable definition as well as the conventional embrace of stability."--Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine

"An ambitious study of the surprising ephemerality of photography. Through eclectic and illuminating case studies, Albers reveals that impermanence is not a glitch or anomaly within the history of the medium, but rather a central part of what photography is."--Catherine Zuromskis, author of Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images



Review Quotes




"Albers brilliantly encourages us to revisit the ephemerality of recent photographic works before returning to 'the foundation' . . . Albers tells us to wait in the scene--be it the clinic or gallery--to find out what's moving, what's missing, what's pulsing inside us."

-- "Cleveland Review of Books"



About the Author



Kate Palmer Albers is the author of Uncertain Histories: Accumulation, Inaccessibility, and Doubt in Contemporary Photography and coeditor of Before-and-After Photography: Histories and Contexts. She teaches visual culture, contemporary art, media studies, and history and theory of photography at Whittier College in Los Angeles.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.87 Inches (H) x 5.91 Inches (W) x .47 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 168
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: History
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Kate Palmer Albers
Language: English
Street Date: November 30, 2021
TCIN: 84903342
UPC: 9780520381544
Item Number (DPCI): 247-32-2398
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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