ABSTRACT
Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical studies on material visual practices explores the role that digital photography plays within everyday life.
With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a range of academic disciplines - including anthropology, media studies and visual culture - this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective on photography by situating the image-making process in wider discussions on the materiality and visuality of photographic practices and explores these through empirical case studies.
By focusing on material visual practices, the book presents a comprehensive overview of some of the main challenges digital photography is bringing to everyday life. It explores how the digitization of photography has a wide-reaching impact on the use of the medium, as well as on the kinds of images that can be produced and the ways in which camera technology is developed. The exploration goes beyond mere images to think about cameras, mediations and technologies as key elements in the development of visual digital cultures.
Digital Photography and Everyday Life will be of great interest to students and scholars of Photography, Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Media Studies, as well as those studying Communication, Cultural Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|88 pages
Variance in use in everyday photography
chapter 2|17 pages
‘Today I dressed like this': selling clothes and playing for celebrity
chapter 4|16 pages
Illness, death and grief
part II|86 pages
Cameras, connectivity and transformed localities
chapter 7|15 pages
Photographs of place in phonespace
chapter 8|19 pages
(Digital) photography, experience and space in transnational families
chapter 9|19 pages
Visual politics and material semiotics
chapter 10|26 pages
Linked photography
chapter 11|5 pages
Photographic places and digital wayfaring
part III|93 pages
Camera as the extension of the photographer