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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The familiar apparatus of the slide machine has inspired some of the most experimental work of the past forty years attracting artists from a vari- ety of backgrounds with its mechanical simplicity and high visual impact. Using slides small enough to fit in the palm of a hand artists have produced magnificent images projected with an unsurpassed clarity and intense color on a scale that exceeds even the most ambitious paintings of the time. These works test the lim- its and possibilities of how we see: not only what images will be shown but also for how long and in what order. They turn walls into giant screens for an array of subjects-vistas of the sea strange mushrooms blending into one another a father and daughter spinning in an endless circle. Sometimes they provide narra tion; at other times the sound of a clicking carousel is the only acoustic backdrop. Slide Show records the history of this ephemeral medium and explores the reasons why artists pursued slide work as a creative outlet. It surveys nearly forty years of tremendous innovation-from the 1960s when artists first realized the potential for slides as art to 2002 just two years before Kodak took its slide pro- jectors off the assembly line. This exhibition is thus remarkably timely. Slides are still familiar to many of us. whether from home viewings of vacation snapshots and other family occasions classroom experiences in art history or research presentations at medical or scien- tific conferences. But slides are rapidly becoming less familiar: they have been pre- empted by the ease and accessibility of digital photography. By understanding the operative characteristics of slide projection we may be better prepared to consider how differently we receive data in today’s complex world of computer imaging. Indeed we are on the verge of thinking nostalgically about a once cutting-edge technology. Though slide projection will soon be lost from the realm of the every day the edgy artwork it inspired captures and conveys its essence. (SP)