Post-Photographic Presences, or How to Wear a Digital Cloak

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12919397
AutoresH Geismar (0000-0002-3320-593X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas305-321
Fecha de publicación2015-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhotographies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1754-0763 • E-ISSN: 1754-0771
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17540763.2015.1102760
OpenAlexW2270695518
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas25

This article explores some of the tensions that digital processing introduces to our understanding of photography by focusing on digital images of a Māori cloak from New Zealand held in the UCL Ethnography Collections. The complex, energetic/electrical networks established not only by digital communication technologies but also between Māori people and their taonga (treasured possessions) expand the understanding of both photographic indexicality and Runia’s definition of presence. The wairua, or spiritual energies, channelled in Māori relationships as they are transmitted through important cultural treasures creates a profound experience of co-presence in which objects are understood as simultaneous links to the past, present and future. The article argues that the experience of co-presence in both Māori engagements with important museum objects and the experience of networked digital communications technologies (including digital photographs) allows us to develop an expanded understanding of provenance, or where objects come from (and who they belong to) in museums

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cloak · Cultural heritage · Digital era · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indexicality · Optics · Photography · Sociology · The Internet · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy