The Ecstasy of Things :  from the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographs / 
 From the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographs 
eds. Thomas Seelig / Urs Stahel. 
 - 397 pages :  chiefly illustrations (some colour) ;  31 cm 
<br/><br/> "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.]. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Foreword /  The photographic life of things /  Form and material --  On the poetics of things in modernity /  Sample and sort : on the photographic idea of things in the 19th century /  Patent inventions --  Craftsmanship and mass production --  Convincing rather than persuading on the relationship between object photography and product design /  "Good form" --  From window display to shopping mall : the rhetoric of selling --  Objective photography in Switzerland 1930-1950 /  Packaging : the second skin --  Perfume and prostheses - the body reified --  Found objects, staging, effects reflections on object photography /  Light and speed --  The wired world - communication and entertainment --  On the fascination of things /  Faster! : better! : mobility and freedom --  Insert --  Glass camouflage photography, objects and objectivity /  The making of ... --  Object photography : status, approach, presentation, image /  Order in the office : touch-typing and stereotyping --  Home : furnishing an identity --  From things to flows /  Childhood dreams --  Sports equipment --  Culture and contingency /  Symbol and fetish - the thing and I --  Decay and disintegration.  Urs Stahel and Thomas Seelig --  Michel Frizot --  Michael Jacob --  Timm Starl --  Gerda Breuer --  Thilo Koenig --  Gisela Ecker and Susanne Scholz --  Hubertus von Amelunxen --  David Campany --  Thomas Seelig --  Neil Cummings --  Norbert Bolz -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>3865210856 9783865210852 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Commercial products--Pictorial works--Exhibitions<br/>Commercial products in art--Exhibitions<br/>Advertising photography--History--Exhibitions
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR706  / .E27 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>779.967