The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement
Original language description
This chapter addresses the contemporary analogue and slow photography movement and its often-claimed potential to oppose the triviality of the mass image and mainstream digital photographic culture. The argumentation is theoretically grounded in debates on counter-practices of photography, particularly conceptions of meta-pictoriality, aesthetic of imperfection, and failed images, which are all considered promising ways to answer Flusser’s call for play against the programme of the apparatus. Empirically based on auto-nethnographic participant observation, the chapter takes the so-called Lomography community and its photography practices as a case study. It is demonstrated that the frequent Lomography tactic against the digital image is based on producing photographs of photography, that is, meta-photographs. However, the detailed analysis of selected practices of Lomography, specifically the LomoWall exhibition strategy and Lomography’s imperfections, reveals that the potential of resistance against the networked digital image apparatus failed to be realised. Lomography suffers the same malaises of digital visual culture, which it intends to resist.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-26865X" target="_blank" >GX19-26865X: Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
ISBN
9781474478816
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
140-157
Number of pages of the book
312
Publisher name
Edinburgh University Press
Place of publication
Edinburgh
UT code for WoS chapter
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