Rephotography
Expanding Conversations About Place Over Time
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 2. November 2027
208 pages
E-Book
978-1-000-18545-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rephotography is a common means of exploring the relationship between time and place. Coined by Mark Klett in the 1970s, at its core is a seemingly simple task: find the location in an existing photograph, revisit it and make a new image from the same vantage point. Whether by design or coincidence, rephotography can draw attention to changes in one's surroundings or elicit nostalgia for places and people lost to time, but it can also trigger change in a practitioner's approach. Differentiating from prescriptive methods of recording place (e.g. repeat photography), rephotography here is examined in relation to a convergence of factors within contemporary visual culture: the shift toward digitizing archival images, changes in the way images are shared, and the increasing autonomy of the 'everyday camera user'. Regardless of status or skill, the book invites those with cameras to not only think about how they represent change in situ, but to also consider the impact of such exploration upon their practice.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-18545-4 (9781000185454)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Dr. Gary McLeod is Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Hosei University, Japan and Lecturer of Photography at Falmouth University, UK.
Content
1. IntroductionAn accidental rephotographerRephotography and placeLearning through lookingExpansion and advocacyChapter overview2. Rephotography in practiceCoincidence or by designAccuracy and frequencyProximity and presenceStrategies of sharingA platform for exploration3. Talking across timeWindows, portals and twin time travellersTechnology and voiceOne-way conversationsBuilding-in durationReconsidering experience4. Rephotographing with othersAccessible archivesEveryday camera users'Ghosts' and souvenirsExpanding conversationsParticipation 'hell'5. Marks in the sandThe problem of 'now'Methodological fatigueAutomation and authorshipOriginality as distractionTaking responsibility
