Digital snaps : the new face of photography

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Digital snaps : the new face of photography

edited by Jonas Larsen and Mette Sandbye

I.B. Tauris, 2014

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: hb ISBN 9781780763316

Description

Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies and images of analogue photography are being transformed with the movement to digital photography. They zoom in on typical, vernacular, everyday practices: the development of the family photo album from a physical object in the living room to a digital practice on the Internet; the use of mobile phones in everyday life; photo communities on the Internet; photo booth photography; studio photography; and fine arts' appropriation of amateur photography. They explore how this media convergence transforms the media ecology - the networks, objects, performances, meanings and circulations - of vernacular photography, as we research it through ordinary people's use of such new cameras and interactive Internet spaces as part of their everyday lives.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. Jonas Larsen and Mette Sandbye: Introduction: The New Face of Snapshot Photography SECTION 1 Images on Web 2.0 and the Camera Phone CHAPTER 2. Martin Lister: Overlooking, Rarely Looking, and Not Looking CHAPTER 3 Jonas Larsen: The (Im)Mobile Life of Digital photographs: The Case of Tourist Photography CHAPTER 4 Mikko Villi: Distance as the New Punctum SECTION 2 Family Albums in Transition CHAPTER 5 Gillian Rose: How Digital Technologies Do Family snaps, Only Better CHAPTER 6 Joanne Garde-Hansen: Friendship Photography: Memory, Mobility and Social Networking CHAPTER 7 Mette Sandbye: Play, Process and Materiality in Japanese Purikura Photography CHAPTER 8 Sigrid Lien: 'Buying an Instrument Does Not Necessarily Make You a Musician': Studio Photography and the Digital Revolution SECTION 3 New Public Forms CHAPTER 9 Anne Jerslev and Mette Mortensen: Paparazzi Photography, Seriality and the Digital Photo Archive CHAPTER 10 Tanya Sheehan: Retouch Yourself: The Pleasures and Politics of Digital Cosmetic Surgery CHAPTER 11 Louise Wolthers: Virtual Selves: Art and Digital Autobiography CHAPTER 12 Michael Shanks and Connie Svabo: Mobile Media Photography: New Modes of Engagement LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781780763323

Description

Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies and images of analogue photography are being transformed with the movement to digital photography. They zoom in on typical, vernacular, everyday practices: the development of the family photo album from a physical object in the living room to a digital practice on the Internet; the use of mobile phones in everyday life; photo communities on the Internet; photo booth photography; studio photography; and fine arts' appropriation of amateur photography. They explore how this media convergence transforms the media ecology - the networks, objects, performances, meanings and circulations - of vernacular photography, as we research it through ordinary people's use of such new cameras and interactive Internet spaces as part of their everyday lives.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. Jonas Larsen and Mette Sandbye: Introduction: The New Face of SnapshotPhotographySECTION 1Images on Web 2.0 and the Camera PhoneCHAPTER 2. Martin Lister: Overlooking, Rarely Looking, and Not LookingCHAPTER 3 Jonas Larsen: The (Im)Mobile Life of Digital photographs: The Case of Tourist PhotographyCHAPTER 4 Mikko Villi: Distance as the New PunctumSECTION 2 Family Albums in TransitionCHAPTER 5 Gillian Rose: How Digital Technologies Do Family snaps, Only BetterCHAPTER 6 Joanne Garde-Hansen: Friendship Photography: Memory, Mobility and Social NetworkingCHAPTER 7 Mette Sandbye: Play, Process and Materiality in Japanese Purikura PhotographyCHAPTER 8 Sigrid Lien: 'Buying an Instrument Does Not Necessarily Make You a Musician':Studio Photography and the Digital RevolutionSECTION 3 New Public FormsCHAPTER 9 Anne Jerslev and Mette Mortensen: Paparazzi Photography, Seriality and the Digital Photo ArchiveCHAPTER 10 Tanya Sheehan: Retouch Yourself: The Pleasures and Politics of Digital Cosmetic SurgeryCHAPTER 11 Louise Wolthers: Virtual Selves: Art and Digital Autobiography CHAPTER 12 Michael Shanks and Connie Svabo: Mobile Media Photography: New Modes of EngagementLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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