Photography and imagination

Uittreksel

"As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing more reliable representations of reality. But as an achievement of technological modernity, photography can also be seen as a way to realize a creation of the imagination more vividly than can painting or drawing. Photography and Imagination investigates, from diverse points of view focusing on both theory and practice, the relation between these two terms. The book explores their effect on photography's capacity, through various forms and modalities of imaginative investments and displacements, to affect even reality itself"--

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Cat in the window? A closer look at how people try to have a closer look / Steffen Siegel -- Surface-depth of photography's stereoscopic imagination / Meir Wigoder -- Radiant matter: X-ray photography and the visual imagination of Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann / Mary Bergstein -- Artemidorus papyrus: Imagination and the digital-photographic archaeology of pictures / Jaś Elsner -- Photography's imagination: The visible and the invisible / Hagi Kenaan -- Photography and the imagination of authorship: Karl May's picture cards from 1896 / Britta Lange -- Photography and imagination in Nazi "racial science" / Amos Morris-Reich -- Attentiveness and visual imagination in looking and photographic: A gay liberation rally in Chicago 1970 / Margaret Olin -- Performative index: James VanDerZee, Roland Barthes, Lorna Simpson, and the photographic imagination / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Photography and the possibility of return / Vered Maimon -- Queering imagination, queering futurity: A methodological approach to military photography / Jun Joon Lee -- Idol of Imagination: Manhatta / Blake Stimson.