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3. What is photography?

4. After nearly 200 years of
capturing images “we still do not
know what photography is”
(Kember, 2008: 175)

5. After nearly 200 years of
capturing images “we still do not
know what photography is”
(Kember, 2008: 175)

6. Infrastructures of image
production (cameras, film
stock, memory cards, etc)

7. Technologies of image production (labs,
chemicals, computers, software, expertise)

8. Distribution/exhibition of images

9. What is photography?
- a product of socio-technical
relations.

10. „the socio-technical history of photography could be
seen as a pendulum constantly moving and
swinging through cyclic changes between the
know-how necessary to create images, and the
artifacts used for that purpose.
Throughout these cycles, there are also ongoing
trends that persist […] these trends also shape
visual images and social uses‟
(Cruz & Meyer, 2012: 208)

11. Stage 1: 19th Century
• Nicéphore Niépce
• Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
• William Henry Fox Talbot

12. Stage 2: circa 1900-1930
• George Eastman
• Creation of „snapshots‟
• Kodak Brownie
• Postal service
• The press
• National Geographic

13. Stage 3: 1930-1990
• Professionalisation
• Artistic
• Group f/64
• Ansel Adams
• Paul Strand
• Edward Weston
• Pictorialism
• Alfred Stiglitz
• Expensive SLRs
• Technique

14. Stage 4: 1990-now
• Digitalisation
• Networked
• Electronic
• Ubiquitous

15. We’re all photographers now?

16. „produsage‟ (Axel Bruns, 2008: 1)
„the collaborative and continuous building and
extending of existing content in pursuit of further
improvement‟
Production + Consumption = Remediation

17. “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is
an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial
societies turn their citizens into image-junkies” (Susan Sontag, 1977: 24)

19. Democratising?

27. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
• Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin (1999) Remediation: Understanding New Media.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Axel Bruns (2008) Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to
Produsage. New York: Peter Lang
• Michel De Certeau (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: Univ. of California
Press.
• Edgar Gómez Cruz and Eric T. Meyer (2012) „Creation and Control in the Photographic
Process: iPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography‟ Photographies, 5:2.
• S. Kember (2008) “The Virtual Life of Photography.” Photographies, 1.2, pp.175–203.
• Roberta Sassatelli (2007) Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics. London: Sage.
• Jonathan Schroeder (2002) Visual Consumption, London: Routledge.
• Don Slater (1995) “Domestic Photography and Digital Culture.” In Martin Lister (ed), The
Photographic Image in Digital Culture.. New York: Routledge, 129–46.
• Susan Sontag (1977) On Photography. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
• Karin Wagner (2011) „Moblogging, Remediation and The New Vernacular‟, Photographies,
4:2, 209-228

28. IMAGES
• Camera expo (2009, auggie tolosa)
• Negatives (2010, olleycoffey)
• Annie Leibovitz Exhibit Wall (2007, Carl_C)
• Times Sqaure (2005, Dave Kliman)
• iPhone Photography (2013, robjewitt)