Peripheral Space of Photography (Green Integer: 157)

Nemet-Nejat, Murat

ISBN 10: 1892295903 / ISBN 13: 9781892295903

Published by Green Integer, 2003

About this Item

Softtcover book in FINE condition. Stated first edition signed by the author, "with respect", Feb. 22, 2003. Actual book is pictured. See images provides. Minimal shelf wear. All pages clean without any markings, notations or folds. Tight binding. Synopsis This profound essay explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Murat Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around a relationship between image and words. Through a critique of photographs in a 1993 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Waking Dream: Photography s First Century, he shows repeatedly how the focal points in photographs are often their mistakes (blurs, over- or underexposures, etc.) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries. Among his other books are Questions of Accent (essay), The Spiritual Life of Replicants, Animals of Dawn, Io s Song, and Turkish Voices (poetry). His translations of Turkish poets include: Ece Ayhan s A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (Green Integer). Seyhan Erözçelik s Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds, and Birhan Keskin s Y ol. He also edited Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. This profound, short essay by poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around a relationship between image and words. Through a critique of photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of 1993, he shows repeatedly how the focal points in photographs are often their mistakes (blurs, over or under exposures, etc.) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peripheral Space of Photography (Green Integer: 157)
• Publisher: Green Integer
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1892295903
• ISBN 13: 9781892295903
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

This profound essay explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Murat Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around a relationship between image and words. Through a critique of photographs in a 1993 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Waking Dream: Photography’s First Century, he shows repeatedly how the focal points in photographs are often their mistakes (blurs, over- or underexposures, etc.) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries.

Among his other books are Questions of Accent (essay), The Spiritual Life of Replicants, Animals of Dawn, Io’s Song, and Turkish Voices (poetry). His translations of Turkish poets include: Ece Ayhan’s A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (Green Integer). Seyhan Erözçelik’s Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds, and Birhan Keskin’s Y’ol. He also edited Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

About the Author

This profound, short essay by poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around a relationship between image and words. Through a critique of photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of 1993, he shows repeatedly how the focal points in photographs are often their mistakes (blurs, over or under exposures, etc.) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries.