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Two events in particular occasion this volume on the philosophy of photography: the blurring of boundaries that many took to demarcate photographic technology and practices from other representational and artistic technologies and the invention of digital photography.

Table of Contents
Introduction DIARMUID COSTELLO and DOMINIC McIVER LOPES

1. Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting PETER ALWARD

2. Fiction, Non-fiction and Deceptive Photographic Representation PALOMA ATENCIA-LINARES

3. Facing the Camera: Self-Portraits of Photographers as Artists DAWN PHILLIPS

4. Photography as Performative Process RICHARD SHUSTERMAN

5. Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print CHRISTY MAG UIDHIR

6. Digital Pictures, Sampling and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures JOHN ZEIMBEKIS

7. The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gursky’s Aesthetics BENCE NANAY

8. Artwork and Document in the Photography of Louise Lawler SHERRI IRVIN

9. The Question Concerning Photography DIARMUID COSTELLO

10. A Musical Photograph? RICHARD BEAUDOIN AND ANDREW KANIA

11. Drawings of Photographs in Comics ROY COOK

12. Photography and Knowledge SCOTT WALDEN

13. Depiction, Detection and the Epistemic Value of Photography LAURA PERINI

The Media of Photography

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 23/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9781118269015, 978-1118269015
      ISBN10: 1118269012

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Two events in particular occasion this volume on the philosophy of photography: the blurring of boundaries that many took to demarcate photographic technology and practices from other representational and artistic technologies and the invention of digital photography.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction DIARMUID COSTELLO and DOMINIC McIVER LOPES

      1. Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting PETER ALWARD

      2. Fiction, Non-fiction and Deceptive Photographic Representation PALOMA ATENCIA-LINARES

      3. Facing the Camera: Self-Portraits of Photographers as Artists DAWN PHILLIPS

      4. Photography as Performative Process RICHARD SHUSTERMAN

      5. Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print CHRISTY MAG UIDHIR

      6. Digital Pictures, Sampling and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures JOHN ZEIMBEKIS

      7. The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gursky’s Aesthetics BENCE NANAY

      8. Artwork and Document in the Photography of Louise Lawler SHERRI IRVIN

      9. The Question Concerning Photography DIARMUID COSTELLO

      10. A Musical Photograph? RICHARD BEAUDOIN AND ANDREW KANIA

      11. Drawings of Photographs in Comics ROY COOK

      12. Photography and Knowledge SCOTT WALDEN

      13. Depiction, Detection and the Epistemic Value of Photography LAURA PERINI

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