The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9058679756 ISBN 13: 9789058679758

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2014

Synopsis

"New insights into the shifting cultures of today’s ‘hypervisual’ digital universe. With the advent of digital technologies and the Internet, photography can, at last, fulfill its promise and forgotten potential as both a versatile medium and an adaptable creative practice. This multidisciplinary volume provides new insights into the shifting cultures affecting the production, collection, usage, and circulation of photographic images on interactive World Wide Web platforms."

About this title

About the Authors

Alexandra Moschovi is associate professor of photography and digital media in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland.

Carol McKay is Senior Lecturer in Photographic Theory in the Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland, and project manager of the North East Photography Network.

Arabella Plouviez is Head of Photography in the Northern Centre of Photography and Research Leader for Art and Design at the University of Sunderland.

From the Back Cover

New insights into the shifting cultures of today's 'hypervisual' digital universe. With the advent of digital technologies and the Internet, photography can, at last, fulfill its promise and forgotten potential as both a versatile medium and an adaptable creative practice. This multidisciplinary volume provides new insights into the shifting cultures affecting the production, collection, usage, and circulation of photographic images on interactive World Wide Web platforms. International contributors from across the arts and humanities consider fundamental concepts that are associated with the practical applications of convergent technologies and media, focusing on the role of digital and mobile cultures and image-making in the everyday life of citizens and their experience of today's 'hypervisual' digital universe, while exploring how contemporary artists creatively interact with such new photographic contexts. Accompanied by a specially commissioned photo-essay, the volume is an important new resource for photographers, artists, and curators as well as academics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9058679756
• ISBN 13: 9789058679758
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Moschovi Alexandra, Mc Kay Carol, Plouviez Arabella