Lost Days, Endless Nights: Photography and Film from Los Angeles (失落的日子,無盡的夜晚:來自洛杉磯的攝影與電影)

Witt, Andrew

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2025-01-14
  • 售價: $1,900
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,805
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 384
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262049074
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049078
  • 相關分類: 設計攝影 Photograph
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商品描述

A critical study and artist's book on the history of photography and film from Los Angeles.

Lost Days, Endless Nights tells a history from below--an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account of the artists who have lived or worked in Los Angeles, delving into the region's history and geography, highlighting its racial, gender, and class conflicts. Presented as a series of nine case studies, Witt asks how artists as varied as Agnès Varda to Dana Lixenberg, Allan Sekula to Catherine Opie, John Divola to Gregory Halpern have reimagined and revised our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles.

The book features portraits of those who struggle and attempt to get by in the city: dock workers, students, bus riders, petty criminals, office workers, immigrants, queer and trans activists. Set against the landscape of economic turmoil and environmental crises that shadowed the 1970s, Witt highlights the urgent need for a historical perspective of cultural retrieval and counternarrative. Extending into the present, Lost Days, Endless Nights advocates for an approach that actively embraces the works and projects that have been overlooked and evicted from the historical imaginary.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本關於洛杉磯攝影和電影歷史的批判性研究及藝術家書籍。

《失落的日子,無盡的夜晚》從底層講述歷史——記錄那些被遺忘和被剝奪的洛杉磯人的生活:失業者、工作不穩定者、被驅逐者、被疏離者、無家可歸者、焦慮者、疲憊者。透過對被遺棄的檔案作品、實驗電影及其他項目的分析,Andrew Witt 提供了一個關於在洛杉磯生活或工作的藝術家的廣泛敘述,深入探討該地區的歷史和地理,突顯其種族、性別和階級衝突。這本書以九個案例研究的形式呈現,Witt 問道,像 Agnès Varda、Dana Lixenberg、Allan Sekula、Catherine Opie、John Divola 和 Gregory Halpern 等不同的藝術家是如何重新想像和修正我們對當代洛杉磯的理解。

本書描繪了那些在城市中掙扎並試圖生存的人們的肖像:碼頭工人、學生、搭乘公車的乘客、小罪犯、辦公室工作者、移民、酷兒和跨性別活動家。在1970年代經濟動盪和環境危機的背景下,Witt 強調了對文化回收和反敘事的歷史視角的迫切需求。《失落的日子,無盡的夜晚》延伸至當代,主張一種積極擁抱那些被忽視和驅逐出歷史想像的作品和項目的方法。

作者簡介

Andrew Witt is an art historian and critic who writes on contemporary art.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

安德魯·威特是一位藝術史學家和評論家,專注於當代藝術的寫作。