Photography Temporality and Modernity

<p>This book examines the photography’s unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study part cultural/philosophical history it examines the medium’s ability to capture and sometimes defy time while also traveling as objects across time-and-space nexuses. The book features studies of understudied widespread practices: studio portraiture motion studies panoramas racing photo finishes composite college class pictures planetary photography digital montages and extended-exposure images. A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time and the anxiety its passage provokes.</p>