Photographic Scale

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4442015
AutoresAndrew Fisher (0000-0002-2505-2160)
Año2012
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas310-329
Fecha de publicación2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy of Photography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2040-3682 • E-ISSN: 2040-3690
EditorialIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/pop.3.2.310_1
OpenAlexW4253245702
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas10

This article sets out to develop a critical and theoretical interpretation of what scale means in and for photography, an investigation provoked by the expansive character of photography in the context of networked digital culture that also involves questions relating to historical practices and theorisations of photography. Scale has many different meanings in these contexts and these are normally addressed separately in specialised discursive frameworks. This article explores an alternative, namely, that it is its very diversity which gives the clue to what scale means for photography. The article projects a concept of 'photographic scale' to delineate the relational form of scale in photography and argues that photographic scale has ontological significance for photography. This concept denotes a ubiquitous, variegated and compound play between differing but necessarily associated scales that inform the spatiotemporality of photography, that allow for its sense as a form of visual representation, that structure its modes of materialisation and that figure significantly in determinations of its global geo-political processes

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