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Of Photography As Suspended Between Art and Social Practice to Capture the Dynamism of the Photographic Medium Today UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available. Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks! Title Photomediations: A reader Editor(s) Kuc, Kamila Zylinska, Joanna Publication date 2016 Original citation Kuc, K. and Zylinska, J. (eds.) (2016). Photomediations: A reader. London: Open Humanities Press. Type of publication Book Link to publisher's https://openhumanitiespress.org/ version Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Rights © 2016, The Authors. Details of copyright for each chapter are included within. This is an open access book, licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution Share Alike license. Under this license, authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy their work so long as the authors and source are cited and resulting derivative works are licensed under the same or similar license. No permission is required from the authors or the publisher. Statutory fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Read more about the license at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Item downloaded http://hdl.handle.net/10468/5671 from Downloaded on 2021-10-11T09:16:42Z Photomediations: A Reader A Photomediations: Photography / Media Studies / Media Arts Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts across the traditional classification of photography as suspended between art and social practice to capture the dynamism of the photographic medium today. It also explores photography’s kinship with other media - and with us, humans, as media. The term ‘photomediations’ brings together the hybrid ontology of ‘photomedia’ and the fluid dynamism of ‘mediation’. The framework of photomediations adopts a processual, and time-based, approach to images by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political flows of data that produce photographic objects. & Zylinska Kuc Contributors: Kimberly K. Arcand : David Bate : Rob Coley : Charlotte Cotton : Joseph DePasquale : Alexander García Düttmann : Mika Elo : Paul Frosh : Ya’ara Gil-Glazer : Lee Grieveson : Aud Sissel Hoel : Kamila Kuc : Zoltan G. Levay : Frank Lindseth : Debbie Lisle : Rafe McGregor : Rosa Menkman : Melissa Miles : Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz : Travis Rector : Mette Sandbye : Jonathan Shaw : Ajay Sinha : Katrina Sluis : Olivia Smarr : Megan Watzke : Joanna Zylinska Cover image: Bill Domonkos, George, 2014 CC BY-SA PHOTOMEDIATIONS: A READER edited by Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska Photomediations: A Reader Photomediations: A Reader arose out of the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot, which was part of Europeana Space, a project funded by the European Union’s ICT Policy Support Programme under GA n° 621037. See http://photomediationsopenbook.net Photomediations: A Reader Edited by Kamila Kuc and Joanna Zylinska In association with Jonathan Shaw, Ross Varney and Michael Wamposzyc OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS London, 2016 First edition published by Open Humanities Press 2016 © Details of copyright for each chapter are included within This is an open access book, licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution Share Alike license. Under this license, authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy their work so long as the authors and source are cited and resulting derivative works are licensed under the same or similar license. No permission is required from the authors or the publisher. Statutory fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Read more about the license at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Figures and other media included with this book may have different copyright restrictions. Cover and design: Michael Wamposzyc, 2016 CC BY-SA Cover image: Bill Domonkos, George, 2014 CC BY-SA Typeset in Fanwood Text, a free OpenType font by Barry Schwartz. More at: http://www.identifont.com/show?2DMD ISBN: 978-1-78542-020-7 PDF ISBN: 978-1-78542-002-3 Print Open Humanities Press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide. More at: http://openhumanitiespress.org Contents Photomediations: An Introduction 7 Joanna Zylinska I Photography, Optics and Light 1. A New Kind of History? The Challenges of Contemporary Histories of Photography 21 Ya’ara Gil Glazer 2. Painting with Light: Beyond the Limits of the Photograph 48 Melissa Miles 3. Why Burn a Photograph? A Film by Hollis Frampton 64 Alexander García Düttmann 4. Processing Color in Astronomical Imagery 75 Kimberly K. Arcand, Megan Watzke, Travis Rector, Zoltan G. Levay, Joseph DePasquale and Olivia Smarr II The Image in Motion 5. It Has Not Been – It Is. The Signaletic Transformation of Photography 95 Mette Sandbye 6. The ‘Potential Mobilities’ of Photography 109 Debbie Lisle 7. The Cinematograph As an Agent of History 120 Kamila Kuc 8. What is the Value of a Technological History of Cinema? 133 Lee Grievson 9. A New/Old Ontology of Film 143 Rafe McGregor III Hybrid Photomediations 10. Notes on a Painting of a Painted Photograph 163 Ajay Sinha 11. Boredom and Baroque Space 172 David Bate 12. Differential Interventions: Images as Operative Tools 177 Aud Sissel Hoel and Frank Lindseth 13. Glitch Studies Manifesto 184 Rosa Menkman 14. NewFotoScapes: An Interview with Charlotte Cotton 186 Jonathan Shaw 15. The Creative Power of Nonhuman Photography 201 Joanna Zylinska IV The Networked Image 16. Benjamin, BitTorrent, Bootlegs: Auratic Piracy Cultures? 227 Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz 17. The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory and Kinaesthetic Sociability 251 Paul Frosh 18. The New Technological Environment of Photography and Shifting Conditions of Embodiment 268 Mika Elo 19. Authorship, Collaboration, Computation? Into the Realm of Similar Images 283 Katrina Sluis 20. The Horrors of Visuality 290 Rob Coley Notes on Contributors 313 Photomediations: An Introduction Joanna Zylinska It is perhaps not too much of an overstatement to describe photography as a quintessential practice of life. Indeed, over the last few decades photography has become so ubiquitous that our very sense of existence is shaped by it. In the words of Susan Sontag, ‘To live is to be photo- graphed, to have a record of one’s life, and therefore to go on with one’s life oblivious, or claiming to be oblivious, to the camera’s nonstop atten- tions’ (Sontag, 2004). We regularly see ourselves and others represented by the photographic medium, in both its formal and informal guises – from the documentation of our life in its foetal stage via medical imaging, through to the regular recording of our growth and maturation in family, school and passport photographs; the incessant capture of the fleeting moments of our life with phone cameras; and the subsequent construc- tion of our life’s ‘timeline’ on social media. We also make sense of the world around us through seeing it imaged. While photography used to be something that others – professionals equipped with large machines that allowed them to capture a better image of the world out there, adver- tisers trying to sell us chunks of that world, photojournalists dispatched to the world’s remote corners that few of us could regularly access – did, we can safely say that, in the age of the camera phone and wireless com- munication, we are all photographers now. With ‘the lighting, optics, resolution, dynamic range, storage capacity and display of professional digital cameras [being] continuously improved’ (All Our Yesterdays, 2014: 17), the technological developments rapidly cascade down to everyday consumers. Yet we are all not just photographers today: we have also become distributors, archivists and curators of the light traces immobilised on photo-sensitive surfaces. As Victor Burgin aptly points out, ‘the most 8 Joanna Zylinska revolutionary event in the recent history of photography is not the arrival of digital cameras as such, but rather the broadband connection of these cameras to the Internet – in effect turning every photograph on the Web into a potential frame in a boundless film’ (2011: 144). One could per- haps go so far as to say that the availability of relatively low-cost storage and networked distribution of digital data has changed the very ontol- ogy of the photographic medium. Photographs function less as individ- ual objects or as media content to be looked at and more as data flows to be dipped or cut into occasionally. The intensity and volume of photo- graphic activity today, and the very fact that it is difficult to doanything – order food, go on holiday, learn about the Moon, have sex – without having it visualised in one way or another, before, during or as part of the experience, gives credence to Sontag’s formulation that ‘the photographs are us’. ‘Andy Warhol’s ideal of filming real events in real time – life isn’t edited, why should its record be edited? – has become a norm for count- less Webcasts, in which people record their day, each in his or her own reality show’ (Sontag, 2004). But, in spite of the embedding of the imaging process in the experi- ence of life on so many different levels, the traditional scholarly and cura- torial way of discussing photography still maintains a relatively narrow set of positions and discourses on the topic. The plethora of activities in which photographs are involved as not just objects but also participants of events still tend to be subsumed under one of the two general rubrics: pho- tography as art or photography as social practice. The first rubric, rooted in the methodology of art history, is encapsulated by numerous histories of photography – from Beaumont Newhall’s modernist classic The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present (1939) through to Michael Fried’s 2008 volume, Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before – presented as stories of the evolution of the medium, enacted by those separate few deemed ‘artists’.
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