Main entry:

Fontcuberta, Joan, 1955- author.

Title & Author:

Pandora's camera : photogr@phy after photography / Joan Fontcuberta.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2014]
©2014

Description:

188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published in Spanish: Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2010.
Translated from the Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references.
I photograph, therefore I am -- The eye of God -- The invisible image (and not non-existent on that account) -- The genie of the wonderful camera -- The perfect blind man -- I knew the Spice Girls -- Eugenics without borders -- Fugitive identities -- Documentary fictions -- Ode to a king with no legs -- The mystery of the missing nipple -- The right distance -- Cosmic palimpsests -- Archaeologies of the future -- Archive noises -- Why do we call it love when we mean sex?

Summary:

"This book is the first English translation of a renowned collection of essays by Joan Fontcuberta, in which he considers the technological shift that photography has undergone in recent years. The medium finds itself torn between loss and hope, between the disappearance of the silver gelatin photograph and the possibilities of the digital medium. Fontcuberta uses the motif of Pandora's box to conceptualise the capricious nature of photography, its fickle relationship to truth -- employing the Greek myth concerning a large jar containing myriad forms of human unhappiness, or blessings, depending on the version you read. As Pandora's camera, digital technology spells calamity to some and liberation to others; it is blamed for irretrievably discrediting veracity, but at the same time it introduces a new degree of truth. In his signature ironic style and playful tone, Fontcuberta examines the new principles that have arisen within the digital ecosystem, in jocular essays such as 'I Knew the Spice Girls' or 'The Mystery of the Missing Nipple'. His critical reflections and poetic evocations are inspired by the hope that still remains in the notion of a postmodern Pandora's camera -- one that might not only describe our environment, but also bring transparency to it." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

1910164038 (paperback)
9781910164037 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography Technological innovations.
Photography Digital techniques.
Photography Philosophy.
Photographie Innovations.
Photographie numérique.
Photographie Philosophie.
Digitaltechnik
Fotografie

Added entries:

MACK (Publishing firm), publisher.

Pandora's camera : photography after photography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288229
Call No.: BIB 229855
Status: Available