Peripheral Space of Photography (Green Integer) - Softcover

Peripheral Space of Photography

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 102 pages. This new short work explores what separates photography from other artistic m edia. Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, b ut a meditative one, built around a relationship between image and words. Throug h 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 mistak es (blurs, over or under exposures) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries. This is a profound study of photography by a noted poet and translator. Among Mu rat Nemat-Nejat books are the essays Questions of Accent and the poems Turkish V oices. He also translated Turkish poet Ece Ayhan's A Blind Cat Black and Orthodo xies for Sun & Moon Press. He lives in New York. Editorial Reviews About t he Author This profound, short essay by poet and translator Murat Nemet-Nejat ex plores 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 photograph s 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 e xposures, etc.) and, spatially, exist in their peripheries. Artikel-Nr. 603p

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