Digital Image Systems
Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School
In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful to film-based technologies. By evaluating the aesthetic and discursive preconditions of this situation and by extensively analyzing the digital work of these three photographers, this book shows that the digital turn in photography was anticipated by the conceptualization of images within systems, and thus offers new perspectives for understanding the »digital revolution«.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 4 - 5 -
0 Introduction
Introduction
Seiten 8 - 19 -
A FRAMING THE DÜSSELDORF SCHOOL
Seiten 20 - 30 -
B WHAT IS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY?
Seiten 31 - 37 -
1 Reception of digital photography: post-photographic theories and the German documentary discourse
Introduction
Seiten 40 - 46 -
A EMERGENCE OF A GERMAN DOCUMENTARY TRADITION
Seiten 47 - 76 -
B THE END OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Seiten 77 - 97 -
C DISCOURSE ON DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY
Seiten 98 - 113 -
2 Archeology of computing: photo-conceptualism, the Becher protocol and early computer art
Introduction
Seiten 116 - 119 -
A PRE-DIGITAL MECHANISMS IN CONTEXT: 1960S / 1970S
Seiten 120 - 136 -
B SERIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND COMBINATORIAL FUNCTIONS: A TRANS-HISTORICAL PATTERN
Seiten 137 - 151 -
3 Emergence of digital tools in Düsseldorf (1987 – 1998)
Introduction
Seiten 154 - 155 -
A DIGITAL RETOUCHING TOOLS
Seiten 156 - 174 -
B DIGITAL STITCHING
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C EARLY DIGITAL COMPOSITIONS
Seiten 203 - 218 -
D THOMAS RUFF'S ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PORTRAIT
Seiten 219 - 237 -
4 Generalization of digital aesthetics in Düsseldorf (1999 – 2015)
Introduction
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A COMPLEX COMPOSITES: ANDREAS GURSKY'S GENERIC WORLD
Seiten 243 - 258 -
B IMAGE RECYCLING AND APPROPRIATIVE POSITIONS
Seiten 259 - 299 -
C THOMAS RUFF'S GENERATED PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION
Seiten 300 - 313 -
D GENERIC PICTURE REALITIES
Seiten 314 - 319 -
5 Conclusion
Seiten 320 - 331 -
6 Appendix
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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B INDEX
Seiten 346 - 348 -
C ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Seiten 349 - 352
18 March 2020, 352 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3902-5
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