Photography, trace, and trauma

by Iversen, Margaret

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Full title :Photography, trace, and trauma / Margaret Iversen.

Summary

Photography 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. -- publishers's statement.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

Description:x, 147 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226370026, 022637002X, 9780226370163, 022637016X
oclc:ocn956263907
LC Classification:TR183
Dewey Decimal:770

Exposure -- Indexicality: a trauma of signification -- Analogue: on Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean -- Casting, rubbing, making strange -- Index, diagram, graphic trace -- The "unrepresentable" -- Invisible traces: postscript on Thomas Demand.