Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
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"Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro" by Melissa McCarthy is a history book focused on Photography Basics. Best for general readers, students, and topic-focused learners.
From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nuclear Nevada desert, we make our tracks over the war-scratched globe, and when we reach a ruin or a destination we read the markings, record them using various forms of photography. Later--or much, much later--someone else in turn will try to understand our silvery traces. These are the threads that Melissa McCarthy follows, unpicks, weaves again into a nexus of light and time: the mirrored silver cells of a shark's eyeball, sunlight glinting off the foam and sea wrack of the Aegean on flower with corpses, the silver salts of photographic paper, silver grave-treasures at Ur. Like an archaeologist in her own strange literary landscape, McCarthy cuts through layers of history and technology to realign the dead and their images. She examines both what can be photographed and what remains always just beyond the frame, and photography itself. It's a practice involving chemicals and the action of light. But it's also an organizing principle for literature and beyond: there are marks made--by us, on us--that we can't yet fully see or understand, though they push on through to the surface, always re-blooming.
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"Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro" by Melissa McCarthy is a history book focused on Photography Basics. Best for general readers, students, and topic-focused learners.
Topic: Photography Basics
Author: Melissa McCarthy
Who this is for:
- Students
- Educators
- Interested readers
Why this book matters: It gives readers useful context, background, and perspective on the subject through a focused and accessible presentation.
From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nuclear Nevada desert, we make our tracks over the war-scratched globe, and when we reach a ruin or a destination we read the markings, record them using various forms of photography. Later--or much, much later--someone else in turn will try to understand our silvery traces. These are the threads that Melissa McCarthy follows, unpicks, weaves again into a nexus of light and time: the mirrored silver cells of a shark's eyeball, sunlight glinting off the foam and sea wrack of the Aegean on flower with corpses, the silver salts of photographic paper, silver grave-treasures at Ur. Like an archaeologist in her own strange literary landscape, McCarthy cuts through layers of history and technology to realign the dead and their images. She examines both what can be photographed and what remains always just beyond the frame, and photography itself. It's a practice involving chemicals and the action of light. But it's also an organizing principle for literature and beyond: there are marks made--by us, on us--that we can't yet fully see or understand, though they push on through to the surface, always re-blooming.
| Author | Melissa McCarthy |
| Publisher | Sagging Meniscus Press |
| Published | 2023-11-15 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781952386657 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Photography | History ; Science | Life Sciences | Marine Biology ; Literary Criticism | General |
| Topic | Photography Basics |
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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