Digital Image Systems : Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School / Claus Gunti.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Image ; 116Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783839439029
- Image processing -- Digital techniques
- Photography -- Digital techniques
- Andreas Gursky
- Art History of the 21st Century
- Art
- Computer
- Culture
- Digital
- Düsseldorf School
- European Art
- Fine Arts
- Germany
- Jörg Sasse
- Thomas Ruff
- Visual Studies
- ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
- Andreas Gursky
- Art History of the 21st Century
- Art
- Computer
- Culture
- Digital
- Düsseldorf School
- European Art
- Fine Arts
- Germany
- Jörg Sasse
- Thomas Ruff
- Visual Studies
- 770
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 0 Introduction -- Introduction -- A FRAMING THE DÜSSELDORF SCHOOL -- B WHAT IS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY? -- 1 Reception of digital photography: post-photographic theories and the German documentary discourse -- Introduction -- A EMERGENCE OF A GERMAN DOCUMENTARY TRADITION -- B THE END OF PHOTOGRAPHY -- C DISCOURSE ON DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY -- 2 Archeology of computing: photo-conceptualism, the Becher protocol and early computer art -- Introduction -- A PRE-DIGITAL MECHANISMS IN CONTEXT: 1960S / 1970S -- B SERIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND COMBINATORIAL FUNCTIONS: A TRANS-HISTORICAL PATTERN -- 3 Emergence of digital tools in Düsseldorf (1987 - 1998) -- Introduction -- A DIGITAL RETOUCHING TOOLS -- B DIGITAL STITCHING -- C EARLY DIGITAL COMPOSITIONS -- D THOMAS RUFF'S ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PORTRAIT -- 4 Generalization of digital aesthetics in Düsseldorf (1999 - 2015) -- Introduction -- A COMPLEX COMPOSITES: ANDREAS GURSKY'S GENERIC WORLD -- B IMAGE RECYCLING AND APPROPRIATIVE POSITIONS -- C THOMAS RUFF'S GENERATED PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION -- D GENERIC PICTURE REALITIES -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Appendix -- A BIBLIOGRAPHY -- B INDEX -- C ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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How have digital technologies affected the truth claim of photography? What has been the artistic response to the technological and societal transformations the digital revolution has brought about?Claus Gunti explores the widespread implications of the digital in the work of renowned photographers of the Düsseldorf School, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse, stretching from ties to conceptual art to the development of a globalized visual culture. The study provides a model for understanding the digital revolution in photography and shows that it ought to be understood beyond a strictly technological perspective.
funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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