Forget Photography.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewdney, Andrew, Author.

Contributor:

Library Stack (Organization), distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computational intelligence.

Computer networks.

Photography, Artistic.

Remote-sensing images.

Transborder data flow.

Computation.

Networks.

Photography.

Remote sensing.

Transborder Data Flows.

Genre:

Discursive works

Critical Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], Goldsmiths Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The central paradox this book explores is that at the moment of photography's replacement by the algorithm and data flow, photographic cultures proliferate as never before. The afterlife of photography, residual as it may technically be, maintains a powerful cultural and representational hold on reality, which is important to understand in relationship to the new conditions. Forgetting photography is a strategy to reveal the redundant historicity of the photographic constellation and the cultural immobility of its epicenter. It attempts to liberate the image from these historic shackles, forged by art history and photographic theory. More important, perhaps, forgetting photography also entails rejecting the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates, and in doing so opens up other relationships between bodies, times, events, materials, memory, representation and the image. Forgetting photography attempts to develop a systematic method for revealing the limits and prescriptions of thinking with photography, which no amount of revisionism of post-photographic theory can get beyond. The world urgently needs to unthink photography and go beyond it in order to understand the present constitution of the image as well as the reality or world it shows. Forgetting photography will require a different way of organizing knowledge about the visual in culture that involves crossing different knowledges of visual culture, technologies, and mediums. It will also involve thinking differently about routine and creative labor and its knowledge practices within the institutions and organization of visual reproduction."-- provided by distributor.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I

1. Forget Photography

2. Zombie Photography

3. Post-Photography

Part II

4. Philosophy, Technology and Photography

5. Photography and Modernism: A Case Study of Tate Modern and Tate Britain

6. Photography and Heritage: A Case Study of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Part III

7. The Image after Photography

8. The Politics of the Image

9. The Hybrid Image.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Standard Copyright.

Archived and cataloged by Library Stack

Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Dewdney, Andrew Forget Photography

ISBN:

1-912685-81-7

OCLC:

1273979370