Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-8728-358-2
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Media / Art / Politics

By examining photography through geography and philosophy, this book makes evident that place is not the content of a definite representation. To do this, it breaks down the participatory elements of photography into six tropes: the photographer, the camera, the photograph, the image, the spectator, and the genre. Afterwards, through a rigorous theoretical analysis of each of these themes vis-à-vis the notion of place, it shows how they manifest inactive, contingent, unlocalizable, liminal, evental, agential and exigent features. In doing so, it establishes a ‘geophilosophy of photography’, which regards place as that which resists being restricted to where it is (the photographer), to what it is (the camera), to where it goes (the photograph), to what it encloses (the photographic image), to how and when it occurs (the spectator), and to what it represents (the genre).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shobeiri, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Introduction
Chapter One. The Photographer: A Corporeal Place in the Phenomenal World
- Going for a Walk with a Lived Body
- Inhabiting the World as a “lived place”
- Confrontational Aesthetics of Corporeality
Chapter Two. The Camera: A Place That Spatialises Time and Temporalises Space
- Seeing through the Camera
- An Apparatus that Lies in Wait 40The Black Box of Contingency
Chapter Three. The Photograph: A Place That Lacks Its Own Emplacement
- Never in a Single Location
- A Placeless Place Sailing Across Different Spaces
- The Vagabond Locomotion of Photographs
Chapter Four. Photographic Place: Looking at the Photographic Image from Its Edge
- Specificities of the Photographic Frame
- Photographic Place in a Maximised Blind Field
- Photographic Place in a Minimised Blind Field
- Liminality of the Photographic Place
Chapter Five. The Spectator: A Place That Is Sempiternally Taking Place
- Place as a State of Being
- “The event of photography” 98The Evental Place of Photography
Chapter Six. The Genre: The Aftermath of Place
- Landscape and the Agency of Place
- The Spectrality of the Image
- The Temporality of the Text
- The Exigency of the Photographed Place
Epilogue: The Geophilosophy of Photography
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shobeiri, Ali
Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University (NL). His recent books are 'Virtual Photography' (co-edited 2024), 'Psychosomatic Imagery' (co-edited 2023), 'Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography' (monograph 2021), and 'Animation and Memory' (co-edited 2020).

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Visual Art Theories in the Departments of Art History and Media Studies at Leiden University. He is co-editor of Animation and Memory (2020).