As a result of the pervasiveness of photography in
today’s world many of its distinctive features go uncontemplated. In this
respect is hardly a coincidence that in recent decades photography has gained
an increasingly larger role in contemporary art. Much of this work precisely
seeks to engage in reflection on the photographic language of everyday life.
The literature on photography mainly consists of biographical publications of
leading photographers, overviews of their work, and histories of photography.
Other publications are devoted strictly to theoretical debates on the nature of
photography, disregarding biographical or historical aspects. This book
concentrates on theories of photography in a more broad and an integrated
fashion, albeit without pretending to offer an ontology of photography. In
scholarly work on media, the concept of ontology generally refers to medium
specificity, that is, defining the basic differences between one medium and
other media. In line with Sabine Kriebel, we feel it is impossible to capture
the essence of photographs in a single definition.
 |
| Photography Theory in Historical Perspective. |
References:
No comments:
Post a Comment