The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography

Rexer, Lyle

ISBN 10: 1597111007 / ISBN 13: 9781597111003

Published by Aperture, 2009

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First edition, first printing. New.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography
• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597111007
• ISBN 13: 9781597111003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle Rexer examines abstraction at pivotal moments, starting with the inception of photography, when many of the pioneers believed the camera might reveal other aspects of reality. The Edge of Vision traces subsequent explorations--from the Photo Secessionists, who emphasized process and emotional expression over observed reality, to Modernist and Surrealist experiments. In the decades to follow, in particular from the 1940s through the 1980s, a multitude of photographers--Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind and Barbara Kasten among them--took up abstraction from a variety of positions. Finally, Rexer explores

About the Author

Lyle Rexer is a New York–based independent writer and critic. His previous books include Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde (2002) and How to Look at Outsider Art (2005); he contributed an interview with Chuck Close and Bob Holman to A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, 2006), and is the author of Edge of Vision (Aperture, 2010.)