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Vision, revelation, violence: technology and expanded perception within photographic history.

Slevin, Tom. (2018). Vision, revelation, violence: technology and expanded perception within photographic history. Philosophy of Photography, April 2018, 9 (1), pp. 53-70

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Abstract

This article considers photography’s role as a visual technology and the consequent effects of expanded frames of knowledge. At the very moment human vision and memory were called into profound doubt, photography provided a mechanical, prosthetic extension to perceptual experience. However, as a technology, it contains the potential for both revelation and control. In this article, photography is considered as a technique that: expands human perception; inscribes its own mechanical operations into new visual forms, therefore enframing and encoding visible knowledge; and can be harnessed as a disciplinary instrument and technique of power. As a consequence, photography's revealing of hitherto invisible dimensions of reality unfolds within a history of revelation, spectacle and power.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > Film and Television
ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > Fine Art
ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > History
ARTS, MEDIA AND HUMANITIES > Photography
Faculties: Faculty of Creative Industries > School of Art and Design
Depositing User: Tom Slevin
Date Deposited: 16 Aug 2018 12:17
Last Modified: 14 May 2020 01:08
URI: https://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/id/eprint/3903

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