TY - BOOK AU - Seelig,Thomas AU - Stahel,Urs ED - Stiftung für die Photographie (Switzerland) ED - Fotomuseum Winterthur TI - The Ecstasy of Things: from the functional object to the fetish in 20th century photographs SN - 3865210856 AV - TR706 .E27 2004 U1 - 779.967 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Göttingen, [Great Britain] PB - Steidl KW - Commercial products KW - Pictorial works KW - Exhibitions KW - Commercial products in art KW - Advertising photography KW - History N1 - "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 ER -