Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
Photography Off the Scale offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the scale and quantity of images in contemporary visual culture. The book unpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economies
The chapters in the book address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of various forms of scaling in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography. They propose a shift into a fundamental re-evaluation of our theoretical coordinates so as to understand the underpinning media and culture of this change.
Taken together, Photography Off the Scale calls for a reconsideration of both scholarly and artistic approaches and concepts in the face of our contemporary image excess.
Edinburgh University Press
Parikka, Jussi
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Dvorak, Tomas
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April 2021
Dvorak, Tomas
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Parikka, Jussi
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Parikka, Jussi
,
Dvorak, Tomas
(ed.)
(2021)
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
(Technicities),
Edinburgh.
Edinburgh University Press, 312pp.
Abstract
Photography Off the Scale offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the scale and quantity of images in contemporary visual culture. The book unpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economies
The chapters in the book address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of various forms of scaling in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography. They propose a shift into a fundamental re-evaluation of our theoretical coordinates so as to understand the underpinning media and culture of this change.
Taken together, Photography Off the Scale calls for a reconsideration of both scholarly and artistic approaches and concepts in the face of our contemporary image excess.
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