Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly's The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.
Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly's The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.
Jean-Christophe Bailly teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, in Blois, France. His books include The Animal Side and The Instant and Its Shadow, as well as many other books and artists' catalogs in French. Samuel E. Martin is Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His translation of Georges Didi-Huberman's Bark, won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.
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Preface vii Part I: A Haystack in the Sun 1 Part II: The Shadow of a Ladder 57 Notes 95
