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Politics Unseen
Ellen Macfarlane
其他書名
Group f.64 Photography and the Problem of Purity
出版Univ of California Press, 2025-01-07
主題Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Photography / GeneralPhotography / HistoryBiography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
ISBN05203997659780520399761
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CTQBEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the "pure photographs" of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members’ and their prints’ alliances across commercial, political, and artistic domains, the book shatters entrenched understandings of the group as disinterested in contemporary events and unseats conceptions of its prints as icons of modernist purity. Instead, Politics Unseen argues the politics of f.64’s photographs become visible when interwar ideas about "purity" in the areas of eugenics, racial essence, nutrition, colonialism, and horticulture are interrogated. Ultimately, Politics Unseen alters perceptions not only of f.64, but also of what constituted a political image in 1930s America.