The Grotesque in Photography
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"All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."-- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Silver Key", epigram "As recently as 1953 ... William M. Ivins called photography the first visual medium "without syntax." |
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The Grotesque in Photography (1977, New York: Summit, Ridge Press) is a book by A. D. Coleman.
Blurb:
- "a first collection of photographers whose fantastic visions of life are as revolutionary as those of the impressionist, a Ridge Press Book."
Selection of images
- The Deerslayers by Les Krims
- Post-mortem daguerreotypes of children
- Photographers of the American Civil War
- Nick Ut
- Tom Howard's unauthorized photograph of the electrocution of convicted murderer Ruth Snyder
- War photography
- Alexander Gardner's series on the hanging of the Lincoln conspirators
See also
- Grotesque art
- Grotesque photography
- Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
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