Light and Photomedia

List of illustrationsIntroductionChapter 1Early image machinesThe invention of photography c.1830-c.1870Luminous beginningsLight source: the origin of the image machinesA sociological perspectiveLight-space-timeImage-spaceSeeing machinesEver brighter: moving on from the glow of the early image machinesChapter 2Analogue image machinesc.1870-c.1990Super vision: the analogue eraStanding still: the instantaneous capture of light-timeMoving quickly: Photofuturism and light-timeCinematic light-timeStill and moving light-timeLight-space in the analogue eraYou press the button: forming image-spaces everywhereAt the movies: image-spaces in cinemaProofs of realityPhotomontageVideo artLeap into the voidChapter 3Digital image machinesc.1990-2010Dream machines: technology at the speed of lightImage-spaces of the digital era 'All that we see or seem'Light up: the screen space of digital photomediaAt the speed of lightSlow motion: light-time in the digital eraVoid spaceDigital photomedia & the loss of physical realityThe digital image-space: a matter of light-space-timeChapter 4Future image machines2039: two hundred years after the invention of photographyThe future?The photomedia technology of tomorrowThe artist of 2039Connected to nothingIn the 'photographic universe'At the speed of light The future is hereConclusionBibliographyIndex