The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Alexandra Moschovi, Carol McKay, Arabella Plouviez -- Part I. Digital Convergences and New Photographic Ontologies -- 1. The Emancipation of Photography / David Bate -- 2. The Digitized Death of Colonel Gaddafi and the End of Photography / Meir Wigoder -- 3. The New Interval / Nicholas Muellner -- Part II. Novel Currencies of the Amateur Image / 83 -- 4. The Camera Phone as a Connected Camera / Mikko Villi -- 5. 'Humane Truth-telling': Photojournalism and the Syrian Uprising / Caitlin Patrick, Stuart Allan -- 6. Are We All Photographers Now? Exhibiting and Commissioning Photography in the Age of Web 2.0 / Carol McKay, Arabella Plouviez -- Part III. Imag(In) Ing Communities: Photo-Sharing and Public Participation -- 7. Physical to Virtual: An Historical Archive in the Digital World / Janda Gooding -- 8. Flickr The Commons: Historic Photographic Collections through the Eyes of an Online Community of Interest / Bronwen Colquhoun, Areti Galani -- 9. Memetics and Alterity: A Photographic History of Somebody Else's Cat / Dr. Loplop -- Part IV. Digital Aesthetics and Creative Repurposing in Contemporary Art Practice -- 10. Digital Scale: Enlargement and Intelligibility in Thomas Ruff's jpeg Series / Rachel Wells -- 11. 'Let Meaning Disintegrate': Digital Compression as Revelation in the Art of Sean Snyder / Paolo Magagnoli -- 12. Phoning It In / Mia Fineman -- 13. Connected / Arabella Plouviez -- Afterword Abundant Photography, Discursive Limits and the Work of Images / David Campbell -- Index -- Editors -- Contributors. Publisher Marketing: 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, use, and circulation of photographic images on the Web. 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." Contributor Bio:  Moschovi, Alexandra Alexandra Moschovi is Senior Lecturer in Photographic Theory and Programme Leader of MA Photography in the Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland. Contributor Bio:  McKay, Carol 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. Contributor Bio:  Plouviez, Arabella Arabella Plouviez is Head of Photography in the Northern Centre of Photography and Research Leader for Art and Design at the University of Sunderland.