Read Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press)

Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press)

Hanna Rose Shell

4.9/5 (27920 ratings)

Description:Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek , Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself as much more ― a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention.Through a series of fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage ― the static, the serial, and the dynamic ― and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left behind ― photomontages, paper blankets, stuffed rabbits, ghillie suits, and instructional films.Beginning in the domains of natural history and figurative art in the late nineteenth-century, continuing through the rise of aerial warfare in World War I, and onto the cinematic techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War II, this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide in plain sight.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press). To get started finding Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1935408224

Description: Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek , Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself as much more ― a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention.Through a series of fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage ― the static, the serial, and the dynamic ― and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also contains aspects of the previously developed species. Hide and Seek develops its argument from the material forms camouflage has left behind ― photomontages, paper blankets, stuffed rabbits, ghillie suits, and instructional films.Beginning in the domains of natural history and figurative art in the late nineteenth-century, continuing through the rise of aerial warfare in World War I, and onto the cinematic techniques designed to train snipers and civilians during World War II, this book is both a history and a theory of the drive to hide in plain sight.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press). To get started finding Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press)

Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Mit Press)

More Books

Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

Ni vu ni connu

Ni vu ni connu

Oceano (for seven generations)

Oceano (for seven generations)

The Extermination of the American Bison

The Extermination of the American Bison