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Shadow Catchers
Martin Barnes
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Description for Shadow Catchers
Hardcover. A unique survey of the most prominent contemporary artists creating photographs without the aid of a camera. Includes a fully revised and updated text as well as new works by the featured artists. Shadow Catchers is an authoritative and sumptuously produced account of the history of camera-less photography and the processes involved. Num Pages: 208 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 259 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1626.
The very first photographs of the nineteenth century were produced without the use of a camera. Today, having rediscovered camera-less techniques, a number of artists are using camera-less photography to create beautiful, startling images. Now available in an updated and fully revised edition, Shadow Catchers surveys the work of five leading practitioners - Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neususs - who, by casting shadows on light-sensitive paper or by chemically manipulating its surface, capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The resulting pictures are consistently powerful, often with ... Read more
The very first photographs of the nineteenth century were produced without the use of a camera. Today, having rediscovered camera-less techniques, a number of artists are using camera-less photography to create beautiful, startling images. Now available in an updated and fully revised edition, Shadow Catchers surveys the work of five leading practitioners - Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neususs - who, by casting shadows on light-sensitive paper or by chemically manipulating its surface, capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The resulting pictures are consistently powerful, often with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Merrell Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1647g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781858945927
SKU
V9781858945927
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Ref
99-2
About Martin Barnes
MARTIN BARNES is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books Illumine: Photographs by Garry Fabian Miller : A Retrospective and Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour were published by Merrell in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Reviews for Shadow Catchers
'a brilliant collection that will blow the minds of some, but intrigue many others' - AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER