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 |
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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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