In this essay, written in 1995, Lev Manovich explores the ramifications of digital technology and photography. He asks if such a thing as digital photography really exists, and to what extent this really differs from traditional photographic practice. Manovich starts by referring to a range of digital innovations that have transformed the practice of image [...]
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The Paradoxes of Digital Photography – Lev Manovich (1995)
Posted in Photography Theory, tagged 3D graphics, Andreas Gursky, art, digital photography, Lee Manovich, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, realism, visual culture, William Mitchell on February 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Playing In The Fields Of The Image – Abigail Solomon-Godeau (1982)
Posted in Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, tagged abigail solomon-godeau, art, john szarkowski, Maartje van den Heuvel, modernism, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, post-modernism, richard prince, vikky alexander, visual culture on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This essay appears in Solomon-Godeau’s Photography At The Dock collection. It deals with a number of post-modern photographic artists, explaining their work, and situating it in opposition to the established canon of modernist art photography. It is deeply critical of many of the fundamental assumptions of modernist photography that would have been elaborated in the [...]
Introduction To The Photographers Eye – John Szarkowski (1966)
Posted in Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, tagged art, elliot erwitt, jeff wall, john szarkowski, modernism, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, realism, the photographer's eye, visual culture on February 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
John Szarkowski’s book The Photographers Eye was based on an exhibition of the same name held at the Musuem Of Modern Art in New Work in 1964. It featured the work of Friedlander, Evans, Strand and many others, and attempted to give an overview of the fundamental challenges and opportunities of the photographic medium. In [...]
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