The weight of photography / [edited by] Johan Swinnen & Luc Deneulin.

Other author Swinnen, Johan M., 1954-
Other author Deneulin, Luc.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBrussels : Academic and Scientific Publishers,
Description763 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Variant title Subtitle on cover: Photography history, theory and criticism : introductory readings
Contents General introduction: thinking about the theory of photography -- A foreword about thinking / Johan Swinnen & Luc Deneulin -- Homo futuris: a world of possibilities (among others) / Jean Paul Van Bendegem -- The majority world looks back / Shahidul Alam -- Daguerreotypes by Southworth & Hawes convey mid-19th century America through its luminaries and ordinary citizens / Michaël Amy -- Architecture of destruction : the (in)human spatial condition / Ariella Azoulay -- Freeze! / Annette W. Balkema -- Principles for interpreting photographs / Terry Barrett -- Body representations in art and photography / Ben Baruch Blich -- Camera Lucida, another little history of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen -- Jean Baudrillard, the world behind the mirror / Johan Swinnen -- Violence inflicted on images / Jean Baudrillard -- For illusion is not in conflict with reality / Jean Baudrillard -- Creating a museum of photography (1896-1898) : the collection pictorialist photographs of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels / Tamara Berghmans -- The motionless journey / Xavier Canonne -- Counting the teeth: photography for philosophers / Allan D. Coleman -- In-between ways / Tom De Mette -- Leni Riefenstahl's career as a photographer reassessed / Luc Deneulin -- Towards a theory of photography / Hubert Dethier -- Prejudices in the history of philosophy of photography from Benjamin to Barthes / Willem Elias -- The digital imprint. The theory and practice of photography in the digital age / André Gunthert -- Of bodies and other things. German photography from the Weimar to the Berlin Republic / Klaus Honnef -- Beings between: Tony Oursler's The influence machine as hauntological practice / Louis Kaplan -- 'Perceive the City.' Brussels' photographic memory in phases. The relationship between the city and photography / Danielle Leenaerts / Questioning the document: the art of Alfredo Jaar / Jan-Erik Lundström -- The world in light : Cartier-Bresson's time signatures / Michel Onfray -- The identity of photography / Michel Onfray -- The modern condition of photography in the twentieth century / Michel Poivert -- Visual memory as mental inscription on the formation of contexts / Rolf Sachsse -- Weightless photography / Jan Simons -- The hybrid photograph / Johan Swinnen -- The image revealed: Roger Kockaerts The paradox of photography or the non-knowledge of photography / Johan Swinnen -- Observations on the perils (and rewards) of majority world photography / Johan Swinnen -- Pictures of pictures: interview with Lynne Cohen / Jian-Xing Too -- Photography and anthropogeny : from granular images to indexed indices / Henri Van Lier -- .Art - a place for internet art in the Museum of Contemporary Art / Karen Verschooren -- Reproduction and the revenant Derrida and Genet / Hubertus v. Amelunxen -- The crypt of the gaze / Hubertus v. Amelunxen -- Photography after photography : the terror of the body in digital space / Hubertus v. Amelunxen -- Space in-between : on women and landscape photography in Britain / Liz Wells -- Exit : madly or not at all: from Stiegler to Swinnen / Luc Deneulin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 753-754).
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