Flash!

The book offers an expanded way through which to navigate the many ways that flash has been used and to contemplate its place in the twenty-first century.

Auteur
Kate Flint is Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California. She has published The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008), edited The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2012), and written widely on Victorian and modernist fiction, Victorian and early twentieth-century painting and photography, and cultural history.

Texte du rabat

A lively history of flash photography from the nineteenth century to the present that covers diverse topics like race, poverty, and the paparazzi. It surveys the work of professionals and amateurs, news hounds and art photographers, and photographers of crime and wildlife to highlight the role of flash in popular culture, literature, and film

Contenu

• Prologue

• 1: Flashes of Light

• 2: Lightning Flashes

• 3: Flash Memory

• 4: Stopping Time

• 5: Throwing Light

• 6: Light Skinned

• 7: Death by Exposure

• 8: Theatrical Light

• 9: The Modernity of Flash

• 10: Flash's Aesthetics