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Volume 11, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 2040-3682
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Abstract

This article suggests that when the engagement with photography is limited to questions of recognition and resemblance, such approach stifles our experience of the world and directs us towards monotonous homogeneity in which everything can be represented in a photograph, and a photograph is always a representation of something or other. And yet, a photograph has the potential to move our gaze beyond representation of events and situations in a way that allows us to penetrate the appearance of things and to sense their inner reality, rather than act as a mere illustration.

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The assassination of experience by photography
Philosophy of Photography 11, 113 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00031_1
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Keyword(s): apparatus; libidinal economy; materiality; photography; simulation; social control

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