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Disappearance of Darkness

Photography at the End of the Analog Era

9781616890957

Chronicle Books
Available: 10/24/12
8.75 x 11 · 175 pages
9781616890957
CDN $70.00 · cl

 Canadian Title

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by (photographer) Robert Burley

Over the past decade, photographer Robert Burley has traveled the world documenting the abandonment and destruction of film-based photography, namely, the factories where film was produced and the labs that developed it. Burley's atmospheric large-format photographs transport viewers to rarely seen sites where the alchemy of the photographic process was practiced over the last century-from the Polaroid plant in Waltham, Massachusetts to the Kodak-Path� plant in Chalon-sur-Sa�ne, France,the birthplace in 1827 of photography itself. As both fine art and documentary, The Disappearance of Darkness is an elegiac reflection on the resilience of traditional art forms in the digital era and a vital commemoration of a century-old industry that seems to have disappeared overnight.

Robert Burley is an established artist who has been photographing for over twenty years. His work explores the relationship between nature and cities, architecture and the urban landscape. Burley currently teaches at Ryerson University's School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada.