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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.

Photography --- Photographic reconnaissance systems --- Hidden camera photography --- Art and camouflage --- Photographie --- Reconnaissance photographique --- Photographie caméra cachée --- Art et camouflage --- Special effects. --- Effets spéciaux --- 77.01 --- fotografie --- kunst --- camouflage --- film --- projecties --- mimesis --- onzichtbaarheid --- speciale effecten --- Thayer Abbott --- natuurkunde --- zoölogie --- ornithologie --- militaire technologie --- wereldoorlog I --- twintigste eeuw --- 7.01 --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Photographie caméra cachée --- Effets spéciaux --- Trick photography --- Photoreconnaissance systems --- Reconnaissance, Photographic --- Aerial photography --- Aerial reconnaissance --- Military reconnaissance --- Space photography --- Camouflage and art --- Camouflage (Biology) --- Camouflage (Military science) --- Special effects --- Masque --- Histoire de la photographie --- Rapport culture-nature