Astrophotography: Concepts and Flows
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Independently published
Published: August 22, 2022
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9798847781275
First sentence: There is no other technique in photography than the visualization of the properties of light via its base medium. From the chemical compounds of silver dioxide to the electromagnetic semiconductors, the perturbation patterns of light in its particle forms and wave forms have been extending the biochemical perceptions of human retinas in the modern & contemporary imprints of the world external to the individual minds. (Joseph, 1987) approached the concept of concept with the theoretical statement that "it is not a though that is unconscious, but a person who is unconscious of a thought product". And those thoughts are exactly what artists have put in the works of art. From a psychoanalytic point of view, when Marina Abramović asserted that "the artist is present", she expressed the inevitable segregations of the artist to the audience via medium. And as a performance artist, the medium of her body in dissection with her spiritual existence to the concepts embodied in her artistic expressions conveyed the impossibilities of communication both as an internal and external dilemma that started since the Tower of Babel. (Kosuth, 1969) differentiated art from science that "the propositions of art are not factual, but linguistic in character..." However, I would disagree that "they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental objects". If art is a language in itself, by definition, it describes the even most inarticulate mentalities and objects in the physical world beyond the limitations of human conceptualizations. But in a tautological psychology, no, they describe nothing. If it does, the things exterior to the works of art only exists in the mind of the other who are not the creators of art.
Description: What is the concept in art? The materialism limitations of art renders art to the irreducible symbolism Kosuth put in his thesis with One and Three Chairs. The impossibilities of art and the unreachable cause of communication makes the personal public and the public personal. I approached the question with a cosmological consciousness -- a hypothesis I never dreamed of proving, yet proven from the beginning aimlessly and purposelessly.

In the book, I attempt to give an overview of how I approached photography from a developmental psychology, quantum-physic-photochemistry, and conceptual art perspective, from the traditional media of film, CCD, and CMOS, to a satellite-signal-device paradigmatic method. From the scattered works of mine, I hope a precursor to astrophotography can be paved in the message from an anthropological art history perspective.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: i; label: Chapter 1
title: The Particle-wave Duality in Photography
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: How to Survive in a Communist Regime
pagenum: 10; label: Chapter 3
title: Identities
pagenum: 25; label: Chapter 4
title: Closer to Nature
pagenum: 38; label: Chapter 5
title: Hurly-Burly of the Cities
pagenum: 51; label: Chapter 6
title: Language and Mentality
pagenum: 60; label: Chapter 7
title: Tourism of No Faith
pagenum: 70; label: Chapter 8
title: The Night Skies
pagenum: 76; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 87