News: "The Media of Photography": A Scholarly Look at Aesthetics! Bargain Special Edition!

[Asher Kelman]

The current edition of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism is out and is devoted to "The Media of Photography"

Special issue: The Media of Photography Diarmuid Costello and Dominic McIver Lopes, Guest Editors




current issue: vol. 70 no. 1 (winter 2012)

Introduction: diarmuid costello and dominic mciver lopes

Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting: peter alward

Fiction, Nonfiction, and Deceptive Photographic Representation: paloma atencia-linares
Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print: christy mag uidhir

Digital Pictures, Sampling, and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures : john zeimbekis43

Facing the Camera: Self-portraits of Photographers as Artists: dawn m. wilson55

Photography as Performative Process: richard shusterman

Artwork and Document in the Photography of Louise Lawler: sherri irvin

The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gursky’s Aesthetics: bence nanay

The Question Concerning Photography: diarmuid costello

A Musical Photograph?: richard beaudoin and andrew kania

Drawings of Photographs in Comics: roy t. cook

Photography and Knowledge: scott walden139

Depiction, Detection, and the Epistemic Value of Photography: laura perini

I think this will become an important reference and it should make an excellent resource. Membership is just $70 per year USA, $83 international and $35-40 student membership and that includes subscription to the journal itself. I'll try to find the cost of just one copy of this important edition. Meanwhile, I'll read it myself!

Let me know if this interests you!

Asher

[Mark Hampton]

Originally Posted by Asher Kelman

The current edition of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism is out and is devoted to "The Media of Photography"

Special issue: The Media of Photography Diarmuid Costello and Dominic McIver Lopes, Guest Editors




current issue: vol. 70 no. 1 (winter 2012)

Introduction: diarmuid costello and dominic mciver lopes

Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting: peter alward

Fiction, Nonfiction, and Deceptive Photographic Representation: paloma atencia-linares
Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print: christy mag uidhir

Digital Pictures, Sampling, and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures : john zeimbekis43

Facing the Camera: Self-portraits of Photographers as Artists: dawn m. wilson55

Photography as Performative Process: richard shusterman

Artwork and Document in the Photography of Louise Lawler: sherri irvin

The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gursky’s Aesthetics: bence nanay

The Question Concerning Photography: diarmuid costello

A Musical Photograph?: richard beaudoin and andrew kania

Drawings of Photographs in Comics: roy t. cook

Photography and Knowledge: scott walden139

Depiction, Detection, and the Epistemic Value of Photography: laura perini

I think this will become an important reference and it should make an excellent resource. Membership is just $70 per year USA, $83 international and $35-40 student membership and that includes subscription to the journal itself. I'll try to find the cost of just one copy of this important edition. Meanwhile, I'll read it myself!

Let me know if this interests you!

Asher

Asher,

thanks for this -

Here is the abstract from

Fiction, Nonfiction, and Deceptive Photographic Representation: paloma atencia-linares
Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print: christy mag uidhir

It is frequently claimed that (1) there is a sense in which a photograph is always an instance of documentary photography and, (partly because of this) (2) photography is fictionally incapable. I will argue that none of these claims is right. I will briefly address (1) contending that it is a mistake to confuse the documental character of a photograph (the causal relation with the source) with the documentary genre, which it may or may not belong to. I will then argue that (2) only holds if one endorses a very narrow view regarding the nature of the practice of photography.

Photographs, I will further claim, can indeed represent fictional entities/events by photographic means. In this way, I will be partially on the side of theorists who defend that photography is fictionally capable (Carroll, Currie, Warburton). Yet, I will offer an alternative argument to support this view.

nice to see theory catching up with practice !

Photography must be a fiction - this applies to any definition of the medium, the inherent beauty of the medium for me is it sometimes appears on a shallow level to be factive.

of course i really should photography the essay and publish it on the internet and make it a work.

cheer !

[Asher Kelman]

Originally Posted by Mark Hampton

Asher,

thanks for this -

Here is the abstract from

Fiction, Nonfiction, and Deceptive Photographic Representation: paloma atencia-linares
Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print: christy mag uidhir

It is frequently claimed that (1) there is a sense in which a photograph is always an instance of documentary photography and, (partly because of this) (2) photography is fictionally incapable. I will argue that none of these claims is right. I will briefly address (1) contending that it is a mistake to confuse the documental character of a photograph (the causal relation with the source) with the documentary genre, which it may or may not belong to. I will then argue that (2) only holds if one endorses a very narrow view regarding the nature of the practice of photography.

Photographs, I will further claim, can indeed represent fictional entities/events by photographic means. In this way, I will be partially on the side of theorists who defend that photography is fictionally capable (Carroll, Currie, Warburton). Yet, I will offer an alternative argument to support this view.

nice to see theory catching up with practice !

Yes, at last!! I'm amazed and happy that you have a subscription or do you just get this from the web?

Originally Posted by Mark Hampton

Photography must be a fiction - this applies to any definition of the medium, the inherent beauty of the medium for me is it sometimes appears on a shallow level to be factive.

of course i really should photography the essay and publish it on the internet and make it a work.

cheer !

That would be a large photograph!

Asher