Archive for the ‘Medium Specificity’ Category
Coleman, A.D. ‘The Hand With Five Fingers: or, Photography Made Uneasy’ The Digital Evolution (London: Nazraeli Press, 1998) 81-85 p.82 Up until 1888 – that is, for the first half-century of the medium’s existence – anyone who wanted to make photographs had to practice photography. p.83 George Eastman changed all that, permanently, when he introduced the first [...]
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Safety in Numbness
Campany, David. ‘Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on problems of ‘Late Photography’’ Where is the Photograph? ed. by David Green (Brighton; Kent: Photoforum; Photoworks, 2003) 123-132 p.123 [In the news report of Joel Meyerowitz's large format photographing of the aftermath of 9/11] There was a suggestion that photography, rather than television might be the better [...]
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“Theories of Photography: A Short History” Sabine T. Kriebel pp.3-49 in Photography Theory, edited by James Elkins, published by Routledge, London. p.4 [...] a clear definition of intrinsic, universal qualities of a photograph would appear to be, at the very outset, hampered by its dependance on technological change. To speak of “the photograph” would be [...]
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The Medium is the Memory
“The Medium is the Memory” pp134-149, by Florian Brody, in The Digital Dialectic, edited by Peter Lunenfeld, published by The MIT Press, London, 2000. p.136 [...] the book has the quality of captured memory [...] the book is a personal item, an extension of an individual’s memory. p.138 The homepage is [...] the ultimate form [...]
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Techniques of the Observer
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Jonathan Crary Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, London, 1992 “Modernity and the Problem of the Observer” p.1 [film, photography and television] until the mid-1970′s, were generally forms of analog media that still correspond to the optical wavelengths of the spectrum and to a [...]
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“Indexicality and the Concept of Medium Specificity” Mary Ann Doane in The Meaning of Photography. Edited by Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2008 p.3 The lure of the indexical is linked to its intimate collusion with what Didi-Huberman calls the “fantasy of referentiality,” with the inert stability [...]
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{rowan lear} findings- “Lots of barbed wire entanglements” : tiny portrait of young woman
- Children playing cricket
- Squinting boy holding dog with lead
- Woman standing in kitchen, hiding behind wooden boardImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Two girls and two boys, standing beside field of cowsImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Woman in dress standing by building at end of driveway
- Two prints of portrait of boy with shirt and jacket
- Young girl with hat and doll sitting on chair in garden
- Landscape with tree nursery/orchard
- Man playing on ship deck under lifeboat with woman reading
- Two (twin?) boys in matching clothes standing in field
- Young man with hat and pipe standing against corrugated metal wall
- Island from sea
- Man with hat on donkey
- People standing in archway
- Man, woman and two boys paddling in water
- Two men on side street with steps
- Two women standing with twin boys and carrying girl
- Man and three women sitting on grass under trees
- Village, trees and valley
- {writings}
- Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else 22 April 2012
- TANT 4 March 2012
- Let us tell the stories of the dead 21 January 2012
- This is a photograph 10 October 2011
- My brother’s photograph 22 April 2010
- Not my mother’s album 2 February 2010
