Photographic Phenomenology as Cognitive Phenomenology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4160368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Cavedon-Taylor (0000-0003-4474-1700, University of Antwerp, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-89 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayu098 |
| OpenAlex | W2316940205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Photographic pictorial experience is thought to have a peculiar phenomenology to it, one that fails to accompany the pictorial experiences one has before so-called ‘hand-made’ pictures. I present a theory that explains this in terms of a common factor shared by beliefs formed on the basis of photographic pictorial experience and beliefs formed on the basis of ordinary, face-to-face, perceptual experience: the having of a psychologically immediate, non-inferential etiology. This theory claims that photographic phenomenology has less to do with photographs themselves, or the pictorial experiences they elicit, and is a matter of our cognitive response to those experiences. I illustrate this theory’s benefits: it is neutral on the nature of photography and our folk-conception of photography; it is consistent with photographic phenomenology’s being contingent; and it accounts for our experiences of hyper-realistic hand-made pictures. Extant theories of photographic phenomenology falter on one or more of these issues
Aesthetics · Art · Cognition · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Perception · Phenomenology (philosophy · Photography · Visual arts · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |