Photography Off the Scale : : Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image / / Tomáš Dvořák, Jussi Parikka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
• VerfasserIn: Dvořák, Tomáš,; Parikka, Jussi,
• MitwirkendeR: Batchen, Geoffrey,; Cubitt, Sean,; Dvořák, Tomáš,; Fisher, Andrew,; Fontcuberta, Joan,; Heinicker, Paul,; Henning, Michelle,; Ledvina, Josef,; Likavčan, Lukáš,; Parikka, Jussi,; Pollen, Annebella,; Stejskalová, Tereza,; Zylinska, Joanna,; Šimůnek, Michal,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Technicities : TECH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 50 colour illustrations

Offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the scale and quantity of images in contemporary visual cultureUnpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economiesContains chapters by internationally renowned scholars as well as emerging researchers from the Czech Republic, UK and GermanyContributors include many of the key names who have been at the forefront of discussions about scale, digital visual culture, and photography and scale including Michelle Henning, Joanna Zylinska, Sean Cubitt, Joan Fontcuberta and Geoffrey BatchenFor people working in, researching or studying photography, media studies, digital culture and digital visual artsThese essays 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of Images -- I Scale, Measure, Experience -- 2 Mass Image, Anthropocene Image, Image Commons -- 3 Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metrics in Visual Culture -- 4 Living with the Excessive Scale of Contemporary Photography -- 5 Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language and Mood Capture -- 6 Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics -- II Metapictures and Remediations -- 7 Photography’s Mise en Abyme: Metapictures of Scale in Repurposed Slide Libraries -- 8 The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement -- 9 Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics in the Age of Image Abundance -- III Models, Scans and AI -- 10 On Seeing Where There’s Nothing to See: Practices of Light beyond Photography -- 11 Planetary Diagrams: Towards an Autographic Theory of Climate Emergency -- 12 Undigital Photography: Image-Making beyond Computation and AI -- Coda: Photography in the Age of Massification -- Names index -- Subject index