Creation and Control in the Photographic Process

IPhones and the emerging fifth moment of photography

Bibliographic Data

ID12919641
AuthorsEdgar Gómez-Cruz (0000-0003-0055-9966, corresponding author), Eric T Meyer (0000-0002-1998-7162)
Year2012
Volume5
Issue2
Pages203-221
Publication date2012-08-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhotographies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-0763 • E-ISSN: 1754-0771
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17540763.2012.702123
OpenAlexW2132678210
LanguageEN
Citations received53
References cited29

This article underlines some aspects that relate, on the one side, to the technological devices necessary to photography production and, on the other, the kind of practices that shape and are shaped by those devices. It discusses how those relationships have shaped different visual regimes. Based on theoretical approaches like Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Socio-technical Interactions Network (STIN) perspective, the article starts with a brief historical description focusing on the production of photos as a three-step process: 1) infrastructural elements of image production; 2) technologies of processing images; and 3) distribution/showing of images. It is proposed that photography has had four moments in this history. Finally, the article discusses the latest socio-technological practices, and proposes that the iPhone is the best example of the kind of devices that are possibly opening a fifth moment in photography technologies

Art · Economics · Moment (physics · Multimedia · Perspective (graphical · Photography · Process (computing · Production (economics · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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