Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image (Technicities)

Offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the scale and quantity of images in contemporary visual culture Unpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economies Contains chapters by internationally renowned scholars as well as emerging researchers from the Czech Republic, UK and Germany Contributors include many of the key names who have been at the forefront of discussions about scale, digital visual culture, and photography and scale including Michelle Henning, Joanna Zylinska, Sean Cubitt, Joan Fontcuberta and Geoffrey Batchen For people working in, researching or studying photography, media studies, digital culture and digital visual arts These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of various forms of scaling in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography. They propose a shift into a fundamental re-evaluation of our theoretical coordinates so as to understand the underpinning media and culture of this change. These Essays Address The Epistemological, Aesthetic And Political Implications Of Scale In Both Scholarly And Artistic Work. From The Mass Image In Vernacular Culture To Transformations Of Photography In Contexts Of Big Data And Artificial Intelligence, They Explore The Massification Of Photography. Introduction: On The Sclae, Quantity And Measure Of Images / Jussi Parikka And Tomáš Dvořak -- Mass Image, Anthropocene Image, Image Commons / Sean Cubitt -- Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metrics In Visual Culture / Tomáš Dvořak -- Living With The Excessive Scale Of Contemporary Photography / Andrew Fisher -- Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language And Mood Capture / Michelle Henning -- Online Weak And Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics / Tereza Stejskalová -- Photography's Mise En Abyme: Metapictures Of Scale In Repurposed Slide Libraries / Annebella Pollen -- The Failed Photographs Of Photography: On The Analogue And Slow Photography Movement / Michal Šimůnek -- Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics In Teh Age Of Image Abundance / Josef Ledvina -- On Seeing Where There's Nothing To See: Practices Of Light Beyond Photography / Jussi Parikka -- Planetary Diagrams: Towards An Autographic Theory Of Climate Emergency / Lukáš Likavčan, Paul Heinicker -- Undigital Photography: Image-making Beyond Computation And Ai / Joanna Zylinska -- Coda: Photography In The Age Of Massification. A Correspondence Between Joan Fontcuberta And Geoffrey Batchen. Edited By Tomáš Dvořák And Jussi Parikka. Includes Bibliographical References And Indices Offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the scale and quantity of images in contemporary visual cultureUnpacks the notion of the mass image through the lens of affective, representational, political, logistical and material economiesContains chapters by internationally renowned scholars as well as emerging researchers from the Czech Republic, UK and GermanyContributors include many of the key names who have been at the forefront of discussions about scale, digital visual culture, and photography and scale including Michelle Henning, Joanna Zylinska, Sean Cubitt, Joan Fontcuberta and Geoffrey BatchenFor people working in, researching or studying photography, media studies, digital culture and digital visual artsThese essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of various forms of scaling in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography. They propose a shift into a fundamental re-evaluation of our theoretical coordinates so as to understand the underpinning media and culture of this change. Taken together, Photography Off the Scale calls for a reconsideration of both scholarly and artistic approaches and concepts in the face of our contemporary image excess Cover Half-title Technicities series information Title Copyright information Contents Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Preface Notes on Contributors 1: Introduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of Images Scale, Measure,Experience 2 Mass Image, AnthropoceneImage, Image Commons 3 Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metricsin Visual Culture 4 Living with the Excessive Scale of Contemporary Photography 5 Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language and Mood Capture 6 Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics Metapictures andRemediations 7 Photography’s Mise en Abyme: Metapictures of Scale in Repurposed Slide Libraries 8 The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement 9 Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics in the Age of Image Abundance Models, Scans and AI 10 On Seeing Where There’sNothing to See: Practices ofLight beyond Photography 11 Planetary Diagrams: Towards an Autographic Theory of Climate Emergency 12 Undigital Photography: Image-Making beyond Computation and AI Coda: Photography in the Age of Massification Names index Subject index