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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Żylinska, Joanna (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Nonhuman photography [Texte imprimé] / Joanna Zylinska
Publication : Cambridge, [Massachusetts] ; London : the MIT Press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : viii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography
is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In 'Nonhuman Photography',
Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric
view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues
further that even those images produced by humans, whether artists or amateurs, entail
a nonhuman, mechanical element -- that is, they involve the execution of technical
and cultural algorithms that shape our image-making devices as well as our viewing
practices. At the same time, she notes, photography is increasingly mobilized to document
the precariousness of the human habitat and tasked with helping us imagine a better
tomorrow. With its conjoined human-nonhuman agency and vision, Zylinska claims, photography
functions as both a form of control and a life-shaping force. Zylinska explores the
potential of photography for developing new modes of seeing and imagining, and presents
images from her own photographic project, 'Active Perceptual Systems'. She also examines
the challenges posed by digitization to established notions of art, culture, and the
media. In connecting biological extinction and technical obsolescence, and discussing
the parallels between photography and fossilization, she proposes to understand photography
as a light-induced process of fossilization across media and across time scales."
-- Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Photographie -- Philosophie
Phototélécopie
Extinction (biologie)
Genre ou forme : Photographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
770.1 (23e éd.) = Photographie, art par ordinateur, cinématographie, vidéographie - Philosophie et
théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262037020. - ISBN 0262037025
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45476192h
Notice n° :
FRBNF45476192
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Nonhuman vision ; The creative power of nonhuman photography ; Photography after
the human ; Photography and extinction ; Ecomedia between extinction and obsolescence
; We have always been digital.