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Photography - The Unfettered Image (Paperback)
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Photography - The Unfettered Image (Paperback)
Series: Directions in Cultural History
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We live in a time in which photographs have become extraordinarily
mobile. They can be exchanged and circulated at the swipe of a
finger across a screen. The digital photographic image appears and
disappears with a mere gesture of the hand. Yet, this book argues
that this mobility of the image was merely accelerated by digital
media and telecommunications. Photographs, from the moment of their
invention, set images loose by making them portable, reproducible,
projectable, reduced in size and multiplied. The fact that we do
not associate analogue photography with such mobility has much to
do with the limitations of existing histories and theories of
photography, which have tended to view photographic mobility as
either an incidental characteristic or a fault. Photography : The
Unfettered Image traces the emergence of these ways of
understanding photography, but also presents a differently nuanced
and materialist history in which photography is understood as part
of a larger development of media technologies. It is situated in
much broader cultural contexts: caught up in the European colonial
ambition to "grasp the world" and in the development of a new,
artificial "second nature" dependent on the large-scale processing
of animal and mineral materials. Focussing primarily on Victorian
and 1920s-30s practices and theories, it demonstrates how
photography was never simply a technology for fixing a fleeting
reality.
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