The media of photography
By: edited by Diarmuid Costello and Dominic McIver Lopes
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781118269015
Subjects: Photography; Philosophy; PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Digital (see also COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Photography)
Description: "Two events in particular occasion this volume on the philosophy of photography: the blurring of boundaries that many took to demarcate photographic technology and practices from other representational and artistic technologies and the invention of digital photography. The purpose of this volume is not to revive older questions by asking what, if anything, still distinguishes photography in the light of these developments, but to consider sundry questions about the materials and tools--or media--of photography from a variety of perspectives.  critically examines classic and influential arguments in philosophy of photography addresses recent trends in photographic art, such as conceptualism and appropriation highlights philosophically neglected elements of photographic art, such as performativity and self-portraiture reexamines the role of photographic media in photographic art practices offers new perspectives of the impact of digital technologies on photography explores the relationship between photographic art and photography in other arts (comics and music) and in science brings a range of philosophical methodologies and traditions into dialogue incorporates extended discussions of the work of important photographers and artists who use photography (e.g. Friedlander, Gursky, Lawlor) illustrates philosophical points with reproductions, many of them not widely known closely connects philosophical theory to the details of photographic practice offers original and novel theories of the aesthetic, artistic, and epistemic values of photographs "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction DIARMUID COSTELLO and DOMINIC McIVER LOPES1. Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting PETER ALWARD2. Fiction, Non-fiction and Deceptive Photographic Representation PALOMA ATENCIA-LINARES3. Facing the Camera: Self-Portraits of Photographers as Artists DAWN PHILLIPS4. Photography as Performative Process RICHARD SHUSTERMAN5. Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print CHRISTY MAG UIDHIR6. Digital Pictures, Sampling and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures JOHN ZEIMBEKIS7. The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gursky's Aesthetics BENCE NANAY8. Artwork and Document in the Photography of Louise Lawler SHERRI IRVIN9. The Question Concerning Photography DIARMUID COSTELLO10. A Musical Photograph? RICHARD BEAUDOIN AND ANDREW KANIA11. Drawings of Photographs in Comics ROY COOK12. Photography and Knowledge SCOTT WALDEN13. Depiction, Detection and the Epistemic Value of Photography LAURA PERINI .