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A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information
Authors
R. Barthes
G. Batchen
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G. Batchen
G. Batchen
W. Benjamin
W. Benjamin
J. Bolter
S. Buck-Morrs
I. Calvino
D. Campany
M. Castells
J. Derrida
M. Durden
E. Edwards
P. Frosh
C. Gere
W. Gibson
D. Haraway
M. Jay
S. Kember
S. Kember
B. Latour
M. Lister
M. Lister
L. Manovich
Martin Lister
G. Nunberg
M. Rosler
R. Shields
D. Slater
I. Walker
Publication date
1 December 2007
Publisher
'SAGE Publications'
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Abstract
Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography centred upon a rejection of a strong form of technological determinism. It is now clear that far from being displaced to the margins of culture, there is now more photography than ever. There have also been dramatic developments: mobile phone manufacturers have put more cameras into people's hands then ever before; the photograph as social document and historical witness persists but in changing ways; photographs circulate globally on an unprecedented scale via electronic image banks. It is clear that such changes and developments do involve new technologies. However, rather than being due to the kind of technological determinism debated earlier, this is because photography has come to exist within a new technological environment. In many recent accounts, 'information' and information technology are repeatedly cited as constituting a new and shaping context for photographic practices. This article offers a conceptual framework for thinking about these changes by relating tendencies in contemporary discussions of photography to another discourse and another set of practices: informatics. Copyright © 2007 Sage Publications
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