Easy to Read Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance (Zone Books)

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Camouflage is an adaptive logic of escape from photographic representation. In Hide and Seek , Hanna Rose Shell traces the evolution of camouflage as it developed in counterpoint to technological advances in photography, innovations in warfare, and as-yet-unsolved mysteries of natural history. Today camouflage is commonly thought of as a textile pattern of interlocking greens and browns. But in Hide and Seek it reveals itself as much more ? a set of institutional structures, mixed-media art practices, and permutations of subjectivity, that emerged over the course of the twentieth century in environments increasingly mediated by photographic and cinematic intervention.Through a series of fascinating case studies, Shell uncovers three conceptually linked species of photographic camouflage ? the static, the serial, and the dynamic ? and shows how each not only reflects the type of photographic reconnaissance it was meant to counter, but also contains aspects of the previously developed

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