Photographic Scale

Bibliographic Data

ID4442015
AuthorsAndrew Fisher (0000-0002-2505-2160)
Year2012
Volume3
Issue2
Pages310-329
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Photography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2040-3682 • E-ISSN: 2040-3690
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/pop.3.2.310_1
OpenAlexW4253245702
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This article sets out to develop a critical and theoretical interpretation of what scale means in and for photography, an investigation provoked by the expansive character of photography in the context of networked digital culture that also involves questions relating to historical practices and theorisations of photography. Scale has many different meanings in these contexts and these are normally addressed separately in specialised discursive frameworks. This article explores an alternative, namely, that it is its very diversity which gives the clue to what scale means for photography. The article projects a concept of 'photographic scale' to delineate the relational form of scale in photography and argues that photographic scale has ontological significance for photography. This concept denotes a ubiquitous, variegated and compound play between differing but necessarily associated scales that inform the spatiotemporality of photography, that allow for its sense as a form of visual representation, that structure its modes of materialisation and that figure significantly in determinations of its global geo-political processes

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