Ebook: The Instant and Its Shadow: A Story of Photography

Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.

Following in the footsteps of such major figures as Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes, Bailly gives us a new understanding of photography and the way it captures and condenses time.