The Ecstasy of Things : from the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographs / eds. Thomas Seelig / Urs Stahel.
Material type: TextPublisher: Göttingen ; [Great Britain] : Steidl, 2004Description: 397 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 3865210856
- 9783865210852
- From the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographs
- 779.967 22
- TR706 .E27 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 779.967 ECS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A446260B |
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition of same title at Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schwiez, September 4 to November 14, 2004; and Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, and Spazio Oberdan, Milan, March 22 May 29, 2005.".
With essays by Hubertus von Amelunxen [et al.].
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Urs Stahel and Thomas Seelig -- The photographic life of things / Michel Frizot -- Form and material -- On the poetics of things in modernity / Michael Jacob -- Sample and sort : on the photographic idea of things in the 19th century / Timm Starl -- Patent inventions -- Craftsmanship and mass production -- Convincing rather than persuading on the relationship between object photography and product design / Gerda Breuer -- "Good form" -- From window display to shopping mall : the rhetoric of selling -- Objective photography in Switzerland 1930-1950 / Thilo Koenig -- Packaging : the second skin -- Perfume and prostheses - the body reified -- Found objects, staging, effects reflections on object photography / Gisela Ecker and Susanne Scholz -- Light and speed -- The wired world - communication and entertainment -- On the fascination of things / Hubertus von Amelunxen -- Faster! : better! : mobility and freedom -- Insert -- Glass camouflage photography, objects and objectivity / David Campany -- The making of ... -- Object photography : status, approach, presentation, image / Thomas Seelig -- Order in the office : touch-typing and stereotyping -- Home : furnishing an identity -- From things to flows / Neil Cummings -- Childhood dreams -- Sports equipment -- Culture and contingency / Norbert Bolz -- Symbol and fetish - the thing and I -- Decay and disintegration.
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