Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Photographs are ubiquitous in our lives. Most of us contribute to making some of the billions of photographs produced each year. A small number of these have qualities that capture and sustain aesthetic interest. What distinguishes such photographic art from all the other kinds of photograph? What constitutes the distinctive value of photographic art? These are the opening questions of this book, a comprehensive and distinctively philosophical exploration of the aesthetic significance of photography. Identifying the distinctive aesthetic qualities of photographic art, this book explores their nature and value. The explanation of photographic art is complemented by reflection on the nature of aesthetic theory, its role in the history of theorizing about photography and its relation to other interpretative and critical approaches to explaining photographic art. The result is a rounded defence of a distinctively philosophical aesthetics of photography and an original aesthetic theory of photographic art. Illustrated throughout with photographic examples, this book offers those interested in film, photographic art, aesthetics and art theory an introduction and deeper exploration of the field.

Photography --- Aesthetics --- Philosophy --- Aesthetics. --- Philosophy. --- Photography - Philosophy --- 77.01 --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This collection of essays by leading photographic and film theorists considers the changing relationship between the still and moving image in contemporary culture. The photograph has traditionally been seen as a quintessentially still image. Its ability to freeze and hold a moment in time has been the source of its peculiar fascination and the foundation of much of the theoretical discussion about it. New technological developments in digital media, however, have fundamentally altered the ways in which we think about photography, in particular forcing us to reconsider our assumptions about the still and the moving image and their relationships to differing concecptions of time. Amongst the topics addressed in these essays are: the work of artists who extend the still image in time through the use of video or narrative sequencing; the aesthetic and philosophical analyses of stasis; the place of the pose and tableau in contemporary photography in cinema; and the notion of the cinematic fragment and cultural memory.


kunst --- fotografie --- fotografietheorie --- film --- video --- beweging --- filmstills --- enscenering --- fotografie en film --- tijd --- tijdelijkheid --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 77.01 --- film [performing arts] --- Film --- photography [process] --- moving images --- Photography --- videobeelden --- film [discipline]