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Hide and seek : camouflage, photography, and the media of reconnaissance.
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ISBN: 9781935408222 1935408224 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Zone books

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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.


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Shoddy : from devil's dust to the renaissance of rags
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ISBN: 022669822X Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago, Illinois ; London, England : University of Chicago Press,

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"This is a book about waste transformed, and reuse, repurposing, and recycling -- and how we consume the products of our industry. Through the story of shoddy, Hanna Rose Shell takes up these provocative topics and offers a new way for us to think critically about them. Shoddy is a global potpourri of textile waste manufactured into a saleable commodity: for example, wool that has been sorted, scoured, stuffed into rag-grinding machines, and remade into new clothes and textile and upholstery products. Both of-the-moment and truly historical, the book sends us back to West Yorkshire, 1812 and the birth of the commodification of waste through processing, before pushing us forward again with interviews and images from shoddy towns, waste dumps, textile labs, and rag shredding factories in the US and UK. Along the way we see exposed the political, ethical, environmental, and other ways shoddy has transformed lives and landscapes"--


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Shoddy : From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags.
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ISBN: 9780226698229 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Ni vu ni connu : le camouflage au regard de l'objectif
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ISBN: 9782930601120 2930601124 Year: 2014 Volume: 10 Publisher: Bruxelles : Le Kremlin-Bicêtre : Zones sensibles ; diff. les Belles Lettres,

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Ni vu, ni connu. Le camouflage face à l’objectif est une anthropologie historique et artistique du concept de « camouflage ». Si certains dispositifs de camouflage sont bien connus (les militaires reprenant les stratégies visuelles des animaux pour mieux se fondre dans l’environnement), cet ouvrage se propose d’étudier le concept en adoptant une approche large de son sujet : qu’il s’agisse de militaires, de photographies truquées (aujourd’hui passées aux filtres de Photoshop), d’animaux prenant la forme de leur environnement, d’artistes jouant sur les codes de la dissimulation, de taxidermistes étudiant la peau ou encore d’objectifs optiques destinés à la surveillance… « Le camouflage désigne aussi bien ce qui se fond dans le décor que ce qui s’en détache », écrit Hanna Rose Shell à juste titre : c’est dans cet aller-retour entre fond et forme que se dissimulent les structures profondes du maquillage. Le camouflage se déploie dans le temps et dans l’espace, à travers les disciplines et les discours, sous la forme d’une logique adaptative d’esquive de la représentation photographique. Ni vu ni connu explore les principes structurants des pédagogies visuelles et des pratiques matérielles liées à la dissimulation stratégique, de la premire parution de L’Origine des espces de Darwin de Charles Darwin à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et dévoile les conditions de production et de diffusion en masse des techniques de camouflage dont l’histoire est consubstantielle de celle de l’un des arts majeurs de la modernité : la photographie.

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