This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the
Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. The Turin Shroud
inspires a discussion on photography's frequently acclaimed
'ontological privilege', which has conditioned an understanding of
photography as a sui generis breed of images wherein pictorial
representation is coextensive with human vision. This is then
contrasted with a discussion of the universal Turing machine, which
integrates photography into a framework of media philosophy and
algorithmic art. Here, photography becomes more than just the
present-day sum of its depiction traditions, devices and
dissemination networks. Rather, it is archetypical of multiple
systems of abstraction and classification, and various other
symbolic processes of transformation.
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