Kelsey, Robin,  1961- <br/><br/>
Photography and the art of chance /Robin Kelsey. 

 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>William Henry Fox Talbot and his picture machine --  Defining art against the mechanical, c. 1860 --  Julia Margaret Cameron transfigures the glitch --  The fog of beauty, c. 1890 --  Alfred Stieglitz moves with the city --  Stalking chance and making news, c. 1930 --  Frederick Sommer decomposes our nature --  Pressing photography into a modernist mold, c. 1970 --  John Baldessari plays the only game in town. 
<br/><br/> As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674426177 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Photography, Artistic--Philosophy.<br/>Chance in art.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR642  / .P468 2015