Louis Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Semina
Mapping Ararat
This article reviews Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to create a walking tour that envisions what would have happened if Mordecai Noah’s 1825 plan to transform Grand Island, New York into a city of refuge had succeeded. Using mobile devices, tourists interact with Ararat artifacts and monuments created using 3D modeling software and inserted into the Grand Island landscape. The article re…
Mapping Ararat
Research Article| July 01 2013 Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality, Virtual Tourism, and Grand Island's Jewish Ghosts Louis Kaplan Louis Kaplan University of Toronto, Canada LOUIS KAPLAN is Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is inaugural Chair of the Department of Visual Studies at its Mississauga campus. He is also an associate faculty member at the Centre for Jewish Studies and t…
Lesson One
An Art of Getting Lost
This article analyses Patrick Clancy's photoscroll 365/360 (1985) as an important postmodern image/text investigation into the problematic of the moving still that plays between photography and film and challenges the medium specificity of the Modernist paradigm. 365/360 consists of a number of interweaving and open-ended micro-narratives conveyed (and interrupted) through six rows of images, two registers of text, and the spaces opened up betwee…
Photograph/Death Mask
This article takes Jean-Luc Nancy’s analogy of ‘the photograph itself, as a death mask’ at the conclusion of ‘Masked Imagination’ as its starting point to investigate and extrapolate what his thinking has to offer to contemporary photography theory. In contrast to the indexical approach of Sontag and Bazin, Nancy recasts the photographic image as a mode of exposure (posed in exteriority) to being-in-common. The author situates Nancy’s debt to Mau…
Introduction
Unknowing Susan Sontag's Regarding
This essay reviews and challenges Susan Sontag's use and abuse of Georges Bataille in her last book, Regarding the Pain of Others . Sontag takes up Bataille's understanding of and fascination with a group of Chinese torture (or lingchi ) photographs from the beginning of the twentieth century. Her somber reading glosses over Bataille's "anguished gaiety" in the face of these images and his post-Nietzschean tendency to laugh in the face of the imp…
Yahweh Rastafari! Matisyahu and the Aporias of Hasidic Reggae Superstardom
Yahweh Rastafari! Matisyahu and the Aporias of Hasidic Reggae Superstardom Louis Kaplan (bio) 1. First Encounter: Passover Projections The scene opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City during April 2004, where a happening event in the new Jewish art and cultural scene was in progress. Organized by the former Knitting Factory music impresario Michael Dorf, the Downtown Seder gathered an eclectic set of Jewish luminaries, ranging fr…
What Is Represented Is What Is at Stake
The following interview between the photographer Frédéric Brenner and the photo-historian and theorist Louis Kaplan was conducted on 3 February 2002 in New York City. The conversation focuses primarily on Brenner's project jews/america/a representation (New York: Harry Abrams, 1996). Frédéric Brenner was born in Paris in 1959 and trained as a social anthropologist. While he began using photography as part of his ethnographic studies, the images i…
A Patriotic Mole
A Patriotic Mole: A Living Photograph Louis Kaplan Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. (Page 109) Living American Flag. Photograph by Arthur Mole, Mole & Thomas, 1917. Courtesy of Chicago Historical Society, Negative #ICHi-16299. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. (Page 113) Living Portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. Photograph by Arthur Mole, Mole & Thomas, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1918. Courtesy of C…
Photography and the Exposure of Community
2001). PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EXPOSURE OF COMMUNITY: Sharing nan goldin and jean-luc nancy. Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 7-30
Picturing Modernism
Walter Rathenau's Media Technological Turn as Mediated through W. Hartenau's "Die Resurrection Co." An Essay at Resurrection
L'A. presente la conception de Walter Rathenau dans son etrange texte de la fin du 19 e siecle, «Die Resurrection Co.» (ecrit sous le pseudonyme de W. Hartenau), qui envisage une communication avec les morts par les moyens de la technologie moderne, en l'occurence le telephone. L'A. analyse divers types de litterature necrologique
Die Resurrection Co
L'A. expose son hypothese d'une communication avec le royaume des morts par les moyens de la technologie de son temps (fin du 19 e siecle), et plus particulierement le telephone, dans ce court article de forme anecdotique
The Telephone Paintings
York. This is one of the five enamel telephone paintings that Moholy-Nagy ordered from and had delivered by a Berlin sign factory
Suspense, Para-Science and Laughter
great deal of tension as the mountebanks, or geniuses-to-be, announce their unconventional findings that would overturn the established order of things and redraw the maps of knowledge. One might say that the mounting of the suspense is an essential condition for the para-sciences in general. While it may be an implicit and illicit feature of all forms of knowledge-production, the mounting of suspense dominates in the two marginalized case studie…
A Bibliography of American Autobiographies
Women Doctors of Philosophy in History
Photography and the Exposure of Community
2001). PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EXPOSURE OF COMMUNITY: Sharing nan goldin and jean-luc nancy. Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 7-30
Mapping Ararat
Research Article| July 01 2013 Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality, Virtual Tourism, and Grand Island's Jewish Ghosts Louis Kaplan Louis Kaplan University of Toronto, Canada LOUIS KAPLAN is Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is inaugural Chair of the Department of Visual Studies at its Mississauga campus. He is also an associate faculty member at the Centre for Jewish Studies and t…
Walter Rathenau's Media Technological Turn as Mediated through W. Hartenau's "Die Resurrection Co." An Essay at Resurrection
L'A. presente la conception de Walter Rathenau dans son etrange texte de la fin du 19 e siecle, «Die Resurrection Co.» (ecrit sous le pseudonyme de W. Hartenau), qui envisage une communication avec les morts par les moyens de la technologie moderne, en l'occurence le telephone. L'A. analyse divers types de litterature necrologique
Women Doctors of Philosophy in History
A Bibliography of American Autobiographies
The Telephone Paintings
York. This is one of the five enamel telephone paintings that Moholy-Nagy ordered from and had delivered by a Berlin sign factory
Suspense, Para-Science and Laughter
great deal of tension as the mountebanks, or geniuses-to-be, announce their unconventional findings that would overturn the established order of things and redraw the maps of knowledge. One might say that the mounting of the suspense is an essential condition for the para-sciences in general. While it may be an implicit and illicit feature of all forms of knowledge-production, the mounting of suspense dominates in the two marginalized case studie…
Walter Rathenau's Media Technological Turn as Mediated through W. Hartenau's "Die Resurrection Co." An Essay at Resurrection
L'A. presente la conception de Walter Rathenau dans son etrange texte de la fin du 19 e siecle, «Die Resurrection Co.» (ecrit sous le pseudonyme de W. Hartenau), qui envisage une communication avec les morts par les moyens de la technologie moderne, en l'occurence le telephone. L'A. analyse divers types de litterature necrologique
Die Resurrection Co
L'A. expose son hypothese d'une communication avec le royaume des morts par les moyens de la technologie de son temps (fin du 19 e siecle), et plus particulierement le telephone, dans ce court article de forme anecdotique
Picturing Modernism
A Patriotic Mole
A Patriotic Mole: A Living Photograph Louis Kaplan Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. (Page 109) Living American Flag. Photograph by Arthur Mole, Mole & Thomas, 1917. Courtesy of Chicago Historical Society, Negative #ICHi-16299. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. (Page 113) Living Portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. Photograph by Arthur Mole, Mole & Thomas, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1918. Courtesy of C…
Photography and the Exposure of Community
2001). PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EXPOSURE OF COMMUNITY: Sharing nan goldin and jean-luc nancy. Angelaki: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 7-30
What Is Represented Is What Is at Stake
The following interview between the photographer Frédéric Brenner and the photo-historian and theorist Louis Kaplan was conducted on 3 February 2002 in New York City. The conversation focuses primarily on Brenner's project jews/america/a representation (New York: Harry Abrams, 1996). Frédéric Brenner was born in Paris in 1959 and trained as a social anthropologist. While he began using photography as part of his ethnographic studies, the images i…
Yahweh Rastafari! Matisyahu and the Aporias of Hasidic Reggae Superstardom
Yahweh Rastafari! Matisyahu and the Aporias of Hasidic Reggae Superstardom Louis Kaplan (bio) 1. First Encounter: Passover Projections The scene opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City during April 2004, where a happening event in the new Jewish art and cultural scene was in progress. Organized by the former Knitting Factory music impresario Michael Dorf, the Downtown Seder gathered an eclectic set of Jewish luminaries, ranging fr…
Unknowing Susan Sontag's Regarding
This essay reviews and challenges Susan Sontag's use and abuse of Georges Bataille in her last book, Regarding the Pain of Others . Sontag takes up Bataille's understanding of and fascination with a group of Chinese torture (or lingchi ) photographs from the beginning of the twentieth century. Her somber reading glosses over Bataille's "anguished gaiety" in the face of these images and his post-Nietzschean tendency to laugh in the face of the imp…
Photograph/Death Mask
This article takes Jean-Luc Nancy’s analogy of ‘the photograph itself, as a death mask’ at the conclusion of ‘Masked Imagination’ as its starting point to investigate and extrapolate what his thinking has to offer to contemporary photography theory. In contrast to the indexical approach of Sontag and Bazin, Nancy recasts the photographic image as a mode of exposure (posed in exteriority) to being-in-common. The author situates Nancy’s debt to Mau…
Introduction
An Art of Getting Lost
This article analyses Patrick Clancy's photoscroll 365/360 (1985) as an important postmodern image/text investigation into the problematic of the moving still that plays between photography and film and challenges the medium specificity of the Modernist paradigm. 365/360 consists of a number of interweaving and open-ended micro-narratives conveyed (and interrupted) through six rows of images, two registers of text, and the spaces opened up betwee…
Lesson One
Mapping Ararat
Research Article| July 01 2013 Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality, Virtual Tourism, and Grand Island's Jewish Ghosts Louis Kaplan Louis Kaplan University of Toronto, Canada LOUIS KAPLAN is Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is inaugural Chair of the Department of Visual Studies at its Mississauga campus. He is also an associate faculty member at the Centre for Jewish Studies and t…
Mapping Ararat
This article reviews Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to create a walking tour that envisions what would have happened if Mordecai Noah’s 1825 plan to transform Grand Island, New York into a city of refuge had succeeded. Using mobile devices, tourists interact with Ararat artifacts and monuments created using 3D modeling software and inserted into the Grand Island landscape. The article re…
Semina
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