: Rather than a fixed material object, Albers reinterprets the photograph as a participatory, "fleeting experience".
Contrary to the traditional view of photography as the "art of fixing a shadow" for eternity, Albers argues that —the quality of being fleeting or short-lived—is actually a foundational condition of the medium. The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral ...
: Early photographs in the 1830s and 1840s were notoriously unstable and would often fade into a uniform monochrome when exposed to the very light required to see them. : Rather than a fixed material object, Albers
By studying images that disappear, Albers suggests we can better understand our own saturated visual culture. Ephemerality is not a "glitch" but a central through-line that connects the "protracted hesitancies" of photography’s birth to the precarious, networked digital era we live in today. By studying images that disappear, Albers suggests we
: Rather than a fixed material object, Albers reinterprets the photograph as a participatory, "fleeting experience".
Contrary to the traditional view of photography as the "art of fixing a shadow" for eternity, Albers argues that —the quality of being fleeting or short-lived—is actually a foundational condition of the medium.
: Early photographs in the 1830s and 1840s were notoriously unstable and would often fade into a uniform monochrome when exposed to the very light required to see them.
By studying images that disappear, Albers suggests we can better understand our own saturated visual culture. Ephemerality is not a "glitch" but a central through-line that connects the "protracted hesitancies" of photography’s birth to the precarious, networked digital era we live in today.