Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000. Essays on Camera Portraiture (Soft cover Edition)

SOBIESZEK, Robert A.

ISBN 10: 0262692287 / ISBN 13: 9780262692281

Published by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The MIT Press, Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Text and editing by Robert A. Sobieszek. Includes a bibliography and an index. 324 pp., with 184 four-color plates. 11 x 11 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Near Fine (moderate surface wear and wear to the extremities, sticker residue on the back; all plates are Fine). From the publisher: "Ghost in the Shell takes as its premise the idea that the outer person is a reflection of the inner. Tracing the modern photographic portrait over the past 150 years, the book reveals the many ways the photographic arts have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human face and, consequently, the human spirit. Artists have used the genre not only to convey familiar emotions such as fear, love, sadness, and anger, but also to explore complex subjective states such as passionate individuality and psychological withdrawal. Different avant-garde movements have enlisted farce, masks, and masquerade in their charting of the human character, and many postmodern works employ irony and ambiguity to deal with issues of identity, gender, and dissociation. The book, which accompanies an exhibition opening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in October 1999, is organized roughly chronologically around the traditional, modernist, and postmodernist views of the face, although the primary approach of one period often appears in the others. The artists discussed include, among others, Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Curtis, Salvador Dali, Duchenne de Boulogne, Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibowitz, Bruce Nauman, Orlan, William Parker, Irving Penn, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000. Essays on Camera Portraiture (Soft cover Edition)
• Publisher: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The MIT Press, Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262692287
• ISBN 13: 9780262692281
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued

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Synopsis

Ghost in the Shell takes as its premise the idea that the outer person is a reflection of the inner. Tracing the modern photographic portrait over the past 150 years, the book reveals the many ways the photographic arts have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human face and, consequently, the human spirit. Artists have used the genre not only to convey familiar emotions such as fear, love, sadness, and anger, but also to explore complex subjective states such as passionate individuality and psychological withdrawal. Different avant-garde movements have enlisted farce, masks, and masquerade in their charting of the human character, and many postmodern works employ irony and ambiguity to deal with issues of identity, gender, and dissociation.The book, which accompanies an exhibition opening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in October 1999, is organized roughly chronologically around the traditional, modernist, and postmodernist views of the face, although the primary approach of one period often appears in the others. The artists discussed include, among others, Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Curtis, Salvador Dali, Duchenne de Boulogne, Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibowitz, Bruce Nauman, Orlan, William Parker, Irving Penn, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston.Published in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Ghost in the Shell Tracing the modern photographic portrait over the past 150 years, the book reveals the many ways the photographic arts have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human face and, consequently, the human spirit. Full description