By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophical account of how humans encounter beings in the present. Daniel Rubinstein argues that traditional understandings of photography are determined by the notions of verisimilitude and representation, and this limits our understanding of photographic materiality. It is suggested that the photographic image must be closely read not for the objects, events and situations represented in it, but for the insights it affords into the structure of contemporary consciousness. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photography, media studies, philosophy, fine art, and art history.
Author(s): Daniel Rubinstein
Series: Routledge History Of Photography
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 135
Tags: Photography: Philosophy
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: the emergence of photo-philosophy
Introduction
I | Transition to after-photography
II | Deconstructing the index
III | Technology, previously known as life
1 | The shadow of representation
I | Archaeology of representation
II | Representation and ancient philosophy
III | Enlightenment and representation
IV | Representation and post-Enlightenment
2 | Time
I | Photographic sublime
II | A hole in time
III | The leap out of metaphysics
3 | The event
I | Critiques of ocularcentrism
II | The archive and its discontents
III | The fractal image
4 | Simulacrum
I | Original, copy, simulacrum
II | Simulacrum and Platonism
III | A question of ethics
5 | Latent image
I | The trap of the visual
II | The originary trace
III | Difference at a standstill
Conclusion
The outside of thought
References
Index
