Pictures or It Didn’t Happen
Photo-nostalgia, iPhoneography and the Representation of Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12910638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Chopra-Gant (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-133 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photography and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-4517 • E-ISSN: 1751-4525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17514517.2016.1203632 |
| OpenAlex | W2503149801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article presents an analysis of the phenomenon of “retro” digital photography, informed by aspects of postmodern theory, notably Jameson’s assertion that postmodernity is characterized by “nostalgia for the present,” and the shift toward nonessentialist conceptions of identity. The article argues for a rigorous application of these concepts and suggests that the popularity of “retro” effects used in smartphone photography represents an effort to stabilize images that are in fact immaterial and unstable; to endow the insubstantial and transitory signs by which life histories are registered with an aura of materiality and permanence
Aesthetics · Art · Assertion · Epistemology · Everyday life · Identity (music · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Phenomenon · Photography · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |