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Photography and the politics of the lens |
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| Authors: |
Karaba, Elpida Papastamou, Valia |
| Reviewer: |
Gerogianni, Irini |
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| Abstract: |
We examine the structure of spectacle as the new visual environment of action where works of art are recognized as images among many from film, advertising, and television. In this shift, we trace how the search for alternatives in commercial television, in the new phenomenological experiences of the viewer, forge alternative artistic communities and routes for art. The chapter focuses on photography or (moving away from the medium) the politics of the lens. From its history, photography has been inextricably linked to issues concerning the relationships between art and technology, sign and signified, narrative and experience, events and recording, and life itself and its (political) representations. From the 1920s to the present day, the (photographic) image has been permeated by various correlations concerning culture and the political forces surrounding it, as expressed in the connection between photographic truth and the power of photography to deposit symbolic space in the spectacle of capitalist culture, the connection between photography and the democratic disposition of (anti-)knowledge as part of both movement struggles and demands, and more recently as part of a wider crisis linked to the galloping progress of the globalised technological condition. The chapter traces the crises and transformations of representations from the market-driven oversized photographic tableaux vivant, the living (studio) images of the Düsseldorf School photographers, to the genre of photographic essays and aesthetic photojournalism describing the new conditions of (photographic) art, focusing also on its different contexts (art market, critical postmodernism).
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| Linguistic Editors: |
Klada, Nektaria |
| Graphic Editors: |
Triantafyllakos, George |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 08-07-2023 |
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Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10048 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. (2023). Photography and the politics of the lens [Chapter]. In Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. 2023. Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/10048 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Is Part of: |
Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |