{"product_id":"daguerreotypes-lisa-saltzman-9780226242033","title":"Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects","description":"In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of photography and raised questions about its truth value as a documentary medium. Despite this situation, photography remains a stubbornly substantive form of evidence: referenced by artists, filmmakers, and writers as a powerful emblem of truth, photography has found its home in other media at precisely the moment of its own material demise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By examining this idea of photography as articulated in literature, film, and the graphic novel, \u003ci\u003eDaguerreotypes\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how photography secures identity for figures with an otherwise unstable sense of self. Lisa Saltzman argues that in many modern works, the photograph asserts itself as a guarantor of identity, whether genuine or fabricated. From Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e to Ridley Scott's \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e, W. G. Sebald's \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e to Alison Bechdel's \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e--we find traces of photography's \"fugitive subjects\" throughout contemporary culture. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eDaguerreotypes \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how the photograph, at once personal memento and material witness, has inspired a range of modern artistic and critical practices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Saltzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022624203X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226242033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.39h x 6.07w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2016","brand":"Lisa Saltzman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086397944063,"sku":"9780226242033","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc10e367-b38c-4972-9c6a-d89381088f0b.jpg?v=1769094450","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/daguerreotypes-lisa-saltzman-9780226242033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}