Two events in particular occasion this volume on the philosophy of photography: the blurring of boundaries that many took to demarcate photographic technology and practices from other representational and artistic technologies and the invention of digital photography. The purpose of this volume is not to revive older questions by asking what, if anything, still distinguishes photographyin the light of these developments, but to consider sundry questions about the materials and toolsor mediaof photography from a variety of perspectives. critically examines classic and influential arguments in philosophy of photography addresses recent trends in photographic art, such as conceptualism and appropriation highlights philosophically neglected elements of photographic art, such as performativity and self-portraiture reexamines the role of photographicmedia in photographic art practices offers new perspectives of the impact of digital technologies on photography explores the relationship between photographic art and photography in other arts (comics and music) and in science brings a range of philosophical methodologies and traditions into dialogue incorporates extended discussions of the work of important photographers and artists who use photography (e.g. Friedlander, Gursky, Lawlor) illustrates philosophical points with reproductions, many of them not widely known closely connects philosophical theory to the details of photographic practice offers original andnovel theories of the aesthetic, artistic, and epistemic values of photographs INDICE: Introduction DIARMUID COSTELLO and DOMINIC McIVER LOPES 1. Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting PETER ALWARD 2. Fiction, Non-fiction and Deceptive Photographic Representation PALOMA ATENCIA-LINARES 3. Facing the Camera: Self-Portraits of Photographers as Artists DAWN PHILLIPS 4. Photography as Performative Process RICHARD SHUSTERMAN 5. Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print CHRISTY MAG UIDHIR 6. Digital Pictures, Sampling and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures JOHN ZEIMBEKIS 7. The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gurskys Aesthetics BENCE NANAY 8. Artwork and Document inthe Photography of Louise Lawler SHERRI IRVIN 9. The Question Concerning Photography DIARMUID COSTELLO 10. A Musical Photograph? RICHARD BEAUDOIN AND ANDREW KANIA 11. Drawings of Photographs in Comics ROY COOK 12. Photography and Knowledge SCOTT WALDEN 13. Depiction, Detection and the Epistemic Value of Photography LAURA PERINI
- ISBN: 978-1-118-26901-5
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 08/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés