Photography, temporality, and modernity: time warped (1st)

This volume examines the photography's unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction.

Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium's ability to capture and sometimes 'defy' time, while also travelling as objects across time-and-space nexuses.

It features studies of understudied, widespread, practices: studio portraiture, motion studies, panoramas, racing photo finishes, composite college class pictures, planetary photography, digital montages, and extended-exposure images.

A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time, and the anxiety its passage provokes.