Overview

In Camera Clues, Joe Nickell shares his methods of identifying and dating old photos and demonstrates how to distinguish originals from copies and fakes. Particularly intriguing are his discussions of camera tricks, darkroom manipulations, retouching techniques, and uses of computer technology to deceive the eye. Camera Clues concludes with a look at allegedly ""paranormal"" photography, from nineteenth-century ""spirit photographs"" to UFO snapshots.

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Author:   Joe Nickell
Publisher:   The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint:   The University Press of Kentucky
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.361kg
ISBN:  

9780813191249

ISBN 10:   0813191246
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   10 June 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Conquering the Self: Daoism, Confucianism, and the Price of Freedom in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon What Do You Know of My Heart? The Role of Sense and Sensibility in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Confucian Cowboy Aesthetic East Meets Western: The Eastern Philosophy of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Landscape and Gender in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility and Brokeback Mountain Can't Get No Satisfaction: Desires, Rituals, and the Search for Harmony in Eat Drink Man Woman Paternalism, Aristotle, and Ang Lee: Does Father Really Know Best? Lust, Caution: A Case for Perception, Unimpeded The Power to Go Beyond God's Boundaries? Hulk, Human Nature, and Some Eithical Concerns Thereof Displacement, Deception, and Disorder: Ang Lee's Discourses of Identity Subverting Heroic Violence: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Hulk as Anti-War Narratives Homo Migrans: De-sexualizing Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock Because of the Molecules: The Ice Storm and the Philosophy of Love and Recognition It's Existential: Negative Space and Nothingness in The Ice Storm The Ice Storm: What is Impending? All's Fair in Love and War? Machiavelli and Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil

Reviews

The scope of this text is wide enough to accommodate a variety of photographic investigators.... The use of case studies from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries bolsters the relevance of this handbook, which is a valuable tool for solving photographic mysteries. - National Genealogical Society Quarterly; Written in a clear, lively style, this book makes for fascinating reading and will be of keen interest to photography enthusiasts. - Library Journal

Author Information

Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), is the author of more than twenty investigative books, including Secrets of the Sideshows and Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal.

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