Title & Author:

The Versatile image : photography, digital technologies and the internet / Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez (eds).

Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez -- I. Digital convergences and new photographic ontologies -- The emancipation of photography / David Bate -- The digitized death of Colonel Gaddafi and the end of photography / Meir Wigoder -- The new interval / Nicholas Muellner -- II. Novel currencies of the amateur image -- The camera phone as a connected camera / Mikko Villi -- 'Humane truth-telling' : photojournalism and the Syrian uprising / Caitlin Patrick and Stuart Allan -- Are we all photographers now? Exhibiting and commissioning photography in the age of Web 2.0 / Carol McKay and Arabella Plouviez -- III. Imag(in)ing communities: phopto-sharing and public participation -- Physical to virtual : an historical archive in the digital world / Jana Gooding -- Flickr the Commons : historic photographic collections through the eyes of an online community of interest / Bronwen Colquhoun and Areti Galani -- Memetics and alterity : a photographic history of Somebody Else's Cat / Dr_Loplop -- IV. Digital aesthetics and creative repurposing in contemporary art practice -- Digital scale : enlargement and intelligibility in Thomas Ruff's jpeg series / Rachel Wells -- 'Let meaning disintegrate' : digital compression as revelation in the art of Sean Snyder / Paolo Magagnoli -- Phoning it in / Mia Fineman -- Connected / Arabella Plouviez -- Afterword : abundant photography, discursive limits and the work of images / David Campbell.

Summary:

"With the advent of digital technologies and the Internet, photography can, at last, fulfill its promise and forgotten potential as both a versatile medium and an adaptable creative practice. This multidisciplinary volume provides new insights into the shifting cultures affecting the production, collection, use, and circulation of photographic images on the Web. International contributors from across the arts and humanities consider fundamental concepts that are associated with the practical applications of convergent technologies and media, focusing on the role of digital and mobile cultures and image-making in the everyday life of citizens and their experience of today's hypervisual digital universe, while exploring how contemporary artists creatively interact with such new photographic contexts. Accompanied by a specially commissioned photo-essay, the volume is an important new resource for photographers, artists, and curators as well as academics."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9058679756 (paperback)
9789058679758 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography Digital techniques.
Internet.
Photographie numérique.
Digitale Fotografie

Added entries:

Moschovi, Alexandra, editor.
McKay, Carol, editor.
Plouviez, Arabella, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287748
Call No.: BIB 229114
Status: Available