The Versatile Image
Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet
1st Edition
Published on 6. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
278 pages
978-90-5867-975-8 (ISBN)
Description
New insights into the shifting cultures of today's 'hypervisual' digital universe
With the advent of digital technologies and the Internet, photography can, at last, fulfill its promise and forgotten potential as both a versatile medium and an adaptable creative practice. This multidisciplinary volume provides new insights into the shifting cultures affecting the production, collection, usage, and circulation of photographic images on interactive World Wide Web platforms.
International contributors from across the arts and humanities consider fundamental concepts that are associated with the practical applications of convergent technologies and media, focusing on the role of digital and mobile cultures and image-making in the everyday life of citizens and their experience of today's 'hypervisual' digital universe, while exploring how contemporary artists creatively interact with such new photographic contexts. Accompanied by a specially commissioned photo-essay, the volume is an important new resource for photographers, artists, and curators as well as academics.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Contributors: Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University), David Bate (University of Westminster), David Campbell (University of Sunderland/Durham University), Bronwen Colquhoun (Victoria and Albert Museum), Mia Fineman (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Areti Galani (Newcastle University), Janda Gooding (Australian War Memorial), Dr Loplop (independent), Paolo Magagnoli (University College London), Nicholas Muellner (Ithaca College), Caitlin Patrick (King's College London), Mikko Villi (University of Helsinki), Rachel Wells (Newcastle University), Meir Wigoder (Sapir College and Tel Aviv University).
With the advent of digital technologies and the Internet, photography can, at last, fulfill its promise and forgotten potential as both a versatile medium and an adaptable creative practice. This multidisciplinary volume provides new insights into the shifting cultures affecting the production, collection, usage, and circulation of photographic images on interactive World Wide Web platforms.
International contributors from across the arts and humanities consider fundamental concepts that are associated with the practical applications of convergent technologies and media, focusing on the role of digital and mobile cultures and image-making in the everyday life of citizens and their experience of today's 'hypervisual' digital universe, while exploring how contemporary artists creatively interact with such new photographic contexts. Accompanied by a specially commissioned photo-essay, the volume is an important new resource for photographers, artists, and curators as well as academics.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Contributors: Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University), David Bate (University of Westminster), David Campbell (University of Sunderland/Durham University), Bronwen Colquhoun (Victoria and Albert Museum), Mia Fineman (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Areti Galani (Newcastle University), Janda Gooding (Australian War Memorial), Dr Loplop (independent), Paolo Magagnoli (University College London), Nicholas Muellner (Ithaca College), Caitlin Patrick (King's College London), Mikko Villi (University of Helsinki), Rachel Wells (Newcastle University), Meir Wigoder (Sapir College and Tel Aviv University).
More details
Edition
01
Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
55 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5867-975-8 (9789058679758)
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Persons
Alexandra Moschovi is associate professor of photography and digital media in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland. Carol McKay is Senior Lecturer in Photographic Theory in the Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland, and project manager of the North East Photography Network. Arabella Plouviez is Head of Photography in the Northern Centre of Photography and Research Leader for Art and Design at the University of Sunderland.
Content
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez
PART I DIGITAL CON VERGENCES AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGIES 1. The Emancipation of Photography David Bate 2. The Digitized Death of Colonel Gaddafi and the End of Photography Meir Wigoder 3. The New Interval Nicholas Muellner PART II NOVEL CURRENCIES OF THE AMATEUR IMAGE 4. The Camera Phone as a Connected Camera Mikk o Villi 5. 'Humane Truth-telling': Photojournalism and the Syrian Uprising Caitlin Patrick and Stuart Allan 6. Are We All Photographers Now? Exhibiting and Commissioning Photography in the Age of Web 2.0 Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez PART III IMAG(IN)ING COMMUNITIES: PHOTO-SHARING AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 7. Physical to Virtual: An Historical Archive in the Digital World Janda Gooding 8. Flickr The Commons: Historic Photographic Collections through the Eyes of an Online Community of Interest Bronwen Colquhoun and Areti Galani 9. Memetics and Alterity: A Photographic History of Somebody Else's Cat Dr. Loplop PART IV DIGITAL AESTHETICS AND CREATIVE REPURPOSING IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE 10. Digital Scale: Enlargement and Intelligibility in Thomas Ruff's jpeg Series Rachel Wells 11. 'Let Meaning Disintegrate': Digital Compression as Revelation in the Art of Sean Snyder Paolo Magagnoli 12. Phoning It In Mia Fineman 13. Connected Arabella Plouviez Afterword Abundant Photography, Discursive Limits and the Work of Images David Campbell
Index Editors Contributors
PART I DIGITAL CON VERGENCES AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC ONTOLOGIES 1. The Emancipation of Photography David Bate 2. The Digitized Death of Colonel Gaddafi and the End of Photography Meir Wigoder 3. The New Interval Nicholas Muellner PART II NOVEL CURRENCIES OF THE AMATEUR IMAGE 4. The Camera Phone as a Connected Camera Mikk o Villi 5. 'Humane Truth-telling': Photojournalism and the Syrian Uprising Caitlin Patrick and Stuart Allan 6. Are We All Photographers Now? Exhibiting and Commissioning Photography in the Age of Web 2.0 Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez PART III IMAG(IN)ING COMMUNITIES: PHOTO-SHARING AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 7. Physical to Virtual: An Historical Archive in the Digital World Janda Gooding 8. Flickr The Commons: Historic Photographic Collections through the Eyes of an Online Community of Interest Bronwen Colquhoun and Areti Galani 9. Memetics and Alterity: A Photographic History of Somebody Else's Cat Dr. Loplop PART IV DIGITAL AESTHETICS AND CREATIVE REPURPOSING IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE 10. Digital Scale: Enlargement and Intelligibility in Thomas Ruff's jpeg Series Rachel Wells 11. 'Let Meaning Disintegrate': Digital Compression as Revelation in the Art of Sean Snyder Paolo Magagnoli 12. Phoning It In Mia Fineman 13. Connected Arabella Plouviez Afterword Abundant Photography, Discursive Limits and the Work of Images David Campbell
Index Editors Contributors