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Part 3 – The Opacity of Photography

By Sophie Berrebi | Published: 21. March 2013

One of my students recently declared she believed there was nothing to learn from Flusser’s writings on photography. For her, digital technology expanded the possibilities of photography well beyond what Flusser described as the pre-defined program contained within the camera apparatus. The same went for the idea of the impenetrability of the “black box,” which [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged analogue, apparatus, Berrebi, Beshty, black box, commercial, conventions, device, digital, industrial photography, manual, mobile phones, program, social media, software, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, transparency, Vilém Flusser, Williams | 7 Responses

Part 1 – Platinum Blondes and a Bearded Lady

By Sophie Berrebi | Published: 1. March 2013

“The grammar of cinema is a grammar uniquely its own.” Jean Epstein I remember once being fascinated at the discovery that the silky, almost-white, blond hair of many Hollywood stars from the Golden Age was only an illusion, – a contraption developed for the silver screen. The ability of platinum blond to reflect light endowed [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged artifice, Berrebi, celebrity, digital vs analogue, digitalization, film, grammar, Hollywood, Hubert Damisch, Jean Epstein, Jennifer Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, peroxide, photogenic, pin-up, Platinum Blonde, pose, Zoe Leonard | 4 Responses

5. A Look Forward

By Martin Jaeggi | Published: 19. February 2013

In my last post, I want to have a look at the challenges that may arise from the increasing use of both still and moving images by photographers. The first is, of course, whether photographer is still an apt term to describe these practitioners, or whether “digital camera artist” and “digital camera art” would not [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged computer games, digital camera art, digitalization, Elisabeth Lebovici, exhibitionality, experimental film, film, Jaeggi, post-photographic, Steven Shaviro, still and moving images, television, video, youtube | 4 Responses

4. A Look Back (Part II)

By Martin Jaeggi | Published: 12. February 2013

In my post from two weeks ago, I pointed out that, despite their shared characteristics, film has been traditionally associated with artifice and fiction, whereas photography was supposed to have a preferred access to reality. This is, of course, due to the fact that in mainstream cinema film is used to create primarily narrative works, [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged experimental film, film, Hollis Frampton, Jack Smith, Jaeggi, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, mainstream, medium, Nan Goldin, narrative, Sigmar Polke, Stan Brakhage, Stephen Shore, still and moving images, temporality, video, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Zorns Lemma | 4 Responses

2. A Look Back (Part I)

By Martin Jaeggi | Published: 28. January 2013

If one wants to gauge how the relation of still and moving images is shifting, it is useful to look back at the relation of film and photography in the analogue age. Both media relied on the same optical apparatuses and photochemical processes – they produced images by exposing a photosensitive surface to light refracted [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged analogue, authenticity, experimental film, fashion, film, history of photography, indexicality, Jaeggi, medium, painting, reality, reference, still and moving images, truth | 3 Responses

1. The Shifting Relations of Still and Moving Photographic Images

By Martin Jaeggi | Published: 14. January 2013

The debates on the advent on digital photography in recent years have largely focused on the question whether the digital turn has essentially altered the nature of photography, and whether digital photography could indeed, strictly speaking, still be considered photography at all. Inherent in these queries was naturally the question of the respective validity, superiority, [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged analogue, art context, Bruce Conner, commercial photography, digital vs analogue, digitalization, experimental film, film, Hollis Frampton, Jaeggi, Jonas Mekas, museum, nostalgia, Oskar Fischinger, Paul Sharits, practice, shift, smartphone, still and moving images, video | 3 Responses

4. Aesthetics and Distribution Case (1): Preliminary Notes on Art’s Ability to Radicalize Academia

By Walead Beshty | Published: 7. May 2012

“…each encounter produces a new position of assemblages, even as it simultaneously defines a new use for these assemblages” -Gilles Deleuze In this posting, I would like to pursue an earlier tangent, and redirect it. If we start with the idea that a medium is constituted by a dialectic of applied use and technological development, [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged "New Spirit of Capitalism", academia, aesthetics, Beshty, Boltanski/Chiapello, critique, Deleuze, exhibtionality, hermeneutics, identification, institution, Jerry Fodor, market, medium, memory, meta discourse, museum, philosophy, power, Rosalind Krauss, transparency, use | 4 Responses

1. Imperfection

By Bernd Stiegler | Published: 11. January 2012

In looking at both contemporary exhibitions as well as photographs as they are used in everyday aesthetic applications, one notices that imperfection plays a key role. Far removed from the ideals of the Group f/64, New Objectivity, or even the Bechers and their school, to name a few positions, photographs that consciously employ technical errors [...]

Posted in Blogger Post | Also tagged amateur photography, Becher, Gräff, history of photography, imperfection, Lomography, mistakes, modernist, New Objectivity, perfection, real, realism, spiritualistic photography, Stiegler | 61 Responses

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