Copy, archive, signature : a conversation on photography / Jacques Derrida ; edited with an introduction by Gerhard Richter ; translated by Jeff Fort.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derrida, Jacques.

Contributor:

Amelunxen, Hubertus von.

Wetzel, Michael, 1952-

Richter, Gerhard, 1932-

Fort, Jeff, 1966-

Standardized Title:

Photographie als Kopie, Archiv und Signatur. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Interviews.

Derrida, Jacques.

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book makes available for the first time in English—and for the first time in its entirety in any language—an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation, the volatility of the authorial subject, and the concept of memory. Derrida offers a penetrating intervention with regard to the distinctive nature of photography vis-à-vis related technologies such as cinema, television, and video. Questioning the all-too-facile divides between so-called old and new media, original and reproduction, analog and digital modes of recording and presenting, he provides stimulating insights into the ways in which we think and speak about the photographic image today. Along the way, the discussion fruitfully interrogates the question of photography in relation to such key concepts as copy, archive, and signature. Gerhard Richter introduces the volume with a critical meditation on the relationship between deconstruction and photography by way of the concepts of translation and invention. Copy, Archive, Signature will be of compelling interest to readers in the fields of contemporary European critical thought, photography, aesthetic theory, media studies, and French Studies, as well as those following the singular intellectual trajectory of one the most influential thinkers of our time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Between Translation and Invention: The Photograph in Deconstruction

Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography

Notes

Notes:

"Originally published in German in 2000 under the title 'Die Photographie als Kopie, Archiv und Signatur' in Theorie der Fotografie IV, 1980-1995."

Translation of an interview that Derrida granted to Hubertus von Amelunxen and Michael Wetzel.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804775014

080477501X

OCLC:

669513859