Photographs and Memories.
This article criticizes the limitations of digital photography and of those theoretical models that suggest its innate ability to produce particular meanings. Photography by Alan Schechner; Measures used to assess the mnemonic power and politics of mechanical images; Issue on whether the culture of...
| Published in: | South Central Review Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 94 - 130 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring2004
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| Summary: | This article criticizes the limitations of digital photography and of those theoretical models that suggest its innate ability to produce particular meanings. Photography by Alan Schechner; Measures used to assess the mnemonic power and politics of mechanical images; Issue on whether the culture of digitization has radically changed the prosthetic nature of photographic memory; Question on whether photographic images can in some way assimilate to the temporal mobility of other media such as film and digital imaging. |
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