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oapen-20.500.12657-255812022-07-21T07:50:15Z Flash + Cube (1965–1975) Long, Marget artist book exhibition catalog photography history of photography bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographs Flash + 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 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:43:58Z 2020-04-01T10:43:58Z 2013 book 1004514 OCN: 1100491020 9780615624426 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25581 eng application/pdf n/a 1004514.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0036.1.00 10.21983/P3.0036.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9780615624426 ScholarLed 160 Brooklyn, NY open access
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Flash + 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
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