Photography beyond technique essays from F295 on the informed use of alternative and historical photographic processes - Persinger, Tom; F295 (Organization) (Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, 2014)
Notes on the art of failure / Dan Estabrook -- Mystery, memory, and narrative / Martha Casanave -- Synthesizing centuries / John Metoyer -- Memory, nature, and place / Craig Barber -- Something extraordinary / Jill Enfield -- Looking backward, seeing forward : reframing visual history / Robert Hirsch -- Sleep / France Scully Osterman -- There is no command -Z / Robb Kendrick -- That obscura object of desire : a brief history / Stephen Berkman -- One thousand invented cameras / Jo Babcock -- Finding confidence : combining process with purpose / Mark Osterman -- Imprecise evidence / Laura Blacklow -- The evolution of a collaboration / Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek -- The photograph as reliquary / Jesseca Ferguson -- Windows / Tom Persinger -- The art of getting lost / Brian Taylor -- Photograph, material, and metaphor / Jerry Spagnoli -- There is no virtue in difficulty / Dan Burkholder -- In the dark, time feels different than the light / Keith Taylor -- Imaginary whole-plates or, notes towards the reinvention of photography / Alan Greene.
Essays, originally presented at the annual F295 symposium and seminar series.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Photographic criticism -- Congresses; Photography -- History -- Congresses; Photography -- Processing -- Congresses