Osborne Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition

Commemorating the Present
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-81728-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalized system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the contemporary social world is now imagined, how it is made present and how the concept and the experience of the Present itself is produced. Osborne bases his discussions primarily in cultural studies and visual cultural studies. Through an analysis of different kinds of photographic work in distinct contexts, he demonstrates how aspects of photography that once appeared to make it vulnerable to redundancy turn out to be the basis of its survival and have been utilized by much important photographic work of the last three decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osborne, Peter D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Commemorating the Present: The Presence of Photography Part 1: Spaces 2. Traces of Eden: Photography, Art Travel and the Idea of Paradise 3. Unreachable Landscapes 4. Frontiers and Borderlands 5. This is not a House / These are not Places: The Work of Edgar Martins P art 2: Meanings 6. Encoding God: Lux, Lumen and the Sacred Image in the Age of Digital Reproduction 7. Aztec Cameras: Power, Cultural Hybridity and the Politics of Invisibility in Latin American Photography 8. The Mortal Image: ‘The Eternal Fragility of Photographs’ Conclusion: Resisting the Present

Über Autor(innen)

Peter D. Osborne is Senior Lecturer in the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.