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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Color Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Photography and Ontology: An Introduction -- Unsettling Images: The Essays -- Notes -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Ontology or Metaphor? -- Metaphors They Photographed By -- The Sun Picture -- Mirror, Memory, Shadow, Vision -- Index -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Unsettling the Archive: The Stasi, Photography, and Escape from the GDR -- The Man in a Smart Suit -- Waldmü llerstrasse 1 -- Smugglers and the Opel Kapitan -- Operation Biscaya -- Unsettling the Archive -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Dark Archive: The Afterlife of Forensic Photographs -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Hard Looks: Faces, Bodies, Lives in Early Sydney Police Portrait Photography -- "Birds of Passage" -- Identity Games -- Forget Me Not -- Digital Mobilities -- Stripped-Down -- Four Rememberings -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Anticipatory Photographs: Sarah Pickering and An-My Lê -- An-My Lê : Imagining Wars -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Eli Lotar's Para-urban Visions -- Introduction -- The City of Blood -- Fantastique Social -- The Pichard Image -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Presence of Video: Making the Displaced and Disappeared Self Visible -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Contemplating Life: Rinko Kawauchi's Autobiography of Seeing -- Photography, Autobiography, and the Real -- Photography and Life 1: Photography in/as Autobiography -- Photography and Life 2: Photography and the Self -- Photography and Life 3: Personal Photography and the Photo-Diarist -- Reframing the Personal: Kawauchi and the Photobook -- Child-like, Dream-like: Kawauchi's Mode of Looking -- Kawauchi's Equivalence of Attention -- Kawauchi's Constant Present -- Conclusion -- Notes. Chapter 9: Suspending Productive Time: Some Photographs by Gabriel Orozco and Jacques Ranciè re's Thinking of Modern Aesthetics -- Between Political Economy and Psychoanalysis: Benjamin Buchloh and Margaret Iversen on Orozco's Photography -- Jacques Ranciè re on Artistic Modernity and Aesthetic Experience -- Orozco's Photographs and the Suspension of Productive Time -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Photography as Indexical Data: Hans Eijkelboom and Pattern Recognition Algorithms -- Hans Eijkelboom -- The Computer as Hyperviewer: Photography and "Deep Learning" -- The Data Selfie: From Google to Amazon's Echo Look -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Afterword: Photography Against Ontology -- Ontology Against Photography -- Relational Ontology -- Variable Ontology -- The Political Ontology of Photography -- Notes -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means of social and political provocation, as a mode of surveillance, as a narrative of the self, and as an art form.