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dc.contributor.authorLong, Marget
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:58:18Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.submitted2019-03-26 23:55
dc.date.submitted2020-01-23 14:09:07
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T10:43:58Z
dc.identifier1004514
dc.identifierOCN: 1100491020
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25581
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33322
dc.description.abstractFlash + Cube (1965-1975) is an artist’s book about the Sylvania flashcube — the space-aged, flash photography device, revolutionary in 1965 and nearly obsolete by 1975. Assembled from a wide range of archival materials — a “terrorist letter,” G.I. photographs from Vietnam, Sylvania flashcube advertisements, as well as Long’s photographs and photomontages—the book explores the links between light, war, history and photography. Apart from its circulation as a novelty item online, the flashcube is largely forgotten. The history of photographic flash is also often relegated to a footnote and is strikingly under-analyzed. Yet flash’s blinding effects and military genealogy, and the flashcube’s precise contemporaneity with the war in Vietnam make this a rich analytical object with which to reflect on the cultural, political and economic imperatives of its moment. As Long’s deft work with this archive shows, the flashcube is good to think with
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographsen_US
dc.subject.otherartist book
dc.subject.otherexhibition catalog
dc.subject.otherphotography
dc.subject.otherhistory of photography
dc.titleFlash + Cube (1965–1975)
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0036.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1
oapen.relation.isbn9780615624426
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages160
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY


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