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Off European Ground: A Response to Lutz Koepnick's "Photographs and Memories."

This article comments on the article "Photographs and Memories" by Lutz Koepnick. Critique of the limitations of digital photography and of those theoretical models that suggest its innate ability to produce particular meanings; Spaces of reception and modes of meaning construction that inform the v...

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Published in:South Central Review Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 130 - 135
Main Author: Baer, Hester
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Spring2004
Subjects:
Koepnick, Lutz
Photography
Art
Photographers
Schechner, Alan
Politics & culture
Memory
Imaging systems
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article comments on the article "Photographs and Memories" by Lutz Koepnick. Critique of the limitations of digital photography and of those theoretical models that suggest its innate ability to produce particular meanings; Spaces of reception and modes of meaning construction that inform the viewer's relation to the image; Implications of Koepnick's analysis for the politics and aesthetics of photographs and memories when one steps away from the particular heritage of European fascism.