Photography off the scale : technologies and theories of the mass image / edited by Tomáš Dvořák and Jussi Parikka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dvořák, Tomáš, 1973 May 4- editor.

Parikka, Jussi, 1976- editor.

Series:

Technicities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of Images / Tomas Dvorak

I. SCALE, MEASURE, EXPERIENCE

2. Mass Image, Anthropocene Image, Image Commons / Sean Cubitt

3. Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metrics in Visual Culture / Tomas Dvorak

4. Living with the Excessive Scale of Contemporary Photography / Andrew Fisher

5. Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language and Mood Capture / Michelle Henning

6. Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics / Tereza Stejskalova

II. METAPICTURES AND REMEDIATIONS

7. Photography's Mise en Abyme: Metapictures of Scale in Repurposed Slide Libraries / Annebella Pollen

8. The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement / Michal Simunek

9. Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics in the Age of Image Abundance / Josef Ledvina

III. MODELS, SCANS AND AI

10. On Seeing Where There's Nothing to See: Practices of Light beyond Photography / Jussi Parikka

11. Planetary Diagrams: Towards an Autographic Theory of Climate Emergency / Paul Heinicker

12. Undigital Photography: Image-Making beyond Computation and AI / Joanna Zylinska

13. Coda: Photography in the Age of Massification / Geoffrey Batchen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indices.

ISBN:

1474478824

9781474478823

9781474478816

1474478816

OCLC:

1182850697