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Technicities Ser.: Photography off the Scale : Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Jussi Parikka (2021, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101474478816

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Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePhotography Off the Scale : Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image

Publication Year2021

SubjectGeneral, Criticism, Aesthetics, Essays

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Photography

AuthorJussi Parikka

SeriesTechnicities Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsThis book's refreshing?and much needed?take on?photography?cuts through the infoglut and explores the apparatus, infrastructure, and operations of contemporary pictures. Addressing everything from snapshots to machine vision, Photography Off the Scale unfurls a vital field of technology, politics, and aesthetics reshaping the world., Among the many fundamental changes taking place in contemporary photography and media culture, probably the most important are changes in scale. The new magnitude of image production, the instant global dissemination of billions of new images, and the adoption of AI that turns these images into big data are only some examples of how the visual has been 'scaled up' in the 21st century. Now we finally have a first book that rethinks the history and theory of photography through the lens of scale - and connects this concept to a range of others including measure, politics, gender, subjectivity and aesthetics., Someone takes a picture somewhere in the world. Such a trivial action is multiplied by a trillion. Or much more, since the majority of pictures today are produced by machines for machines. This collection of essays brilliantly explores the unheard-of effects of scale on the ontology of photography and it touches upon the sublime of the infinity of digital images., This book's refreshing and much needed take on photography cuts through the infoglut and explores the apparatus, infrastructure, and operations of contemporary pictures. Addressing everything from snapshots to machine vision, Photography Off the Scale unfurls a vital field of technology, politics and aesthetics reshaping the world., The breadth of the research is extraordinary. The contributors to the book scrutinise the mundane and the exceptional, the terrestrial and the vernacular, the obsolete and the futuristic. Photography Off the Scale made me revisit everything I thought I knew about big data, digital culture, automated systems, data visualisation and new forms of creativity.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal770.1

Table Of ContentIntroduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of ImagesJussi Parikka & Tomás Dvorák Part I: Scale, Measure, Experience 1. The Mass Image, the Anthropocene Image, the Image CommonsSean Cubitt 2. Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metrics in Visual CultureTomás Dvorák 3. Living with the Excessive Scale of Contemporary PhotographyAndrew Fisher 4. Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language and Mood CaptureMichelle Henning 5. Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual PoliticsTereza Stejskalová Part II: Metapictures and Remediations 6. Photography's Mise en Abyme: Metapictures of Scale in Repurposed Slide LibrariesAnnebella Pollen 7. The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography MovementMichal Simunek 8. Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics in the Age of Image AbundanceJosef Ledvina Part III: Models, Scans and AI 9. On Seeing Where There's Nothing to See: Practices of Light Beyond PhotographyJussi Parikka 10. Planetary Diagrams: Towards an Autographic Theory of Climate EmergencyLukás Likavcan & Paul Heinicker 11. Undigital Photography: Image-Making Beyond Computation and AIJoanna Zylinska 12. Coda: Photography in the Age of MassificationJoan Fontcuberta & Geoffrey Batchen

SynopsisThese essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography.

LC Classification NumberTR183