Malevich metaimage6/12/2023 This collection of essays brilliantly explores the unheard-of effects of scale on the ontology of photography and it touches upon the sublime of the infinity of digital images.’ Peter Szendy, Brown University Jussi Parikka is Visiting Professor in the Department of Photography, FAMU in Prague and Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Or much more, since the majority of pictures today are produced by machines for machines. Such a trivial action is multiplied by a trillion. Addressing everything from snapshots to machine vision, Photography Off the Scale unfurls a vital field of technology, politics and aesthetics reshaping the world.’ Lisa Parks, University of California-Santa Barbara Photography Off the Scale Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image ‘Someone takes a picture somewhere in the world. Now we finally have a first book that rethinks the history and theory of photography through the lens of scale - and connects this concept to a range of others including measure, politics, gender, subjectivity and aesthetics.’ Lev Manovich, Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Photography Off the Scale ‘This book’s refreshing and much needed take on photography cuts through the infoglut and explores the apparatus, infrastructure, and operations of contemporary pictures. The new magnitude of image production, the instant global dissemination of billions of new images, and the adoption of AI that turns these images into big data are only some examples of how the visual has been “scaled up” in the twenty-first century. Series editors: John Armitage Ryan Bishop Joanne Roberts ‘Among the many fundamental changes taking place in contemporary photography and media culture, probably the most important are changes in scale. Table of contents : Cover Half-title Technicities series information Title Copyright information Contents Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Preface Notes on Contributors 1: Introduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of Images Scale, Measure,Experience 2 Mass Image, AnthropoceneImage, Image Commons 3 Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metricsin 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 Metapictures andRemediations 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 Models, Scans and AI 10 On Seeing Where There’sNothing to See: Practices ofLight 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 Recommend Papers
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