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Acting the part : photography as theatre /

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Merrell, 2006.Description: 176 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1858943280
9781858943282
0888848188
9780888848185

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Acting the part.DDC classification:

778.8 22

LOC classification:

TR646.C22 O82 2006

Also issued online.

Contents:

Setting the scene / Lori Pauli -- Staged photography in the Victorian album / Marta Weiss -- Modernity and the staged photograph, 1900-1965 / Ann Thomas -- The artful disposition: theatricality, cinema, and social context in contemporary photography / Karen Henry.

Review: "Acting the Part is the first major history of staged photography. Analysing many key works, from Hippolyte Bayard's 1840 self-depiction as a suicide by drowning to Man Ray's 1923 portrait of Marcel Duchamp posing as his alter ego, Rrose Selavy, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s, and Yinka Shonibare's 1998 Diary of a Victorian Dandy, it traces the genre from its mid-nineteenth-century origins to the present day." "Illustrated throughout with works ranging from the earliest salted paper prints and daguerreotypes to today's digitally manipulated images, Acting the Part is an authoritative survey of this enduring and highly creative branch of photography. It makes an argument for the importance of the staged photograph within the history of the medium and demonstrates its intrinsic artistic value."--Jacket.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks	TR646.C22 O82 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	2024-05-20	16055000413

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