ABSTRACT
The act of finding meaning in a photograph is, of course, to engage with photography as representation. In Feininger's image we see a Leica camera held close to the photographer's face. Feininger's image offers us a certain concept of technology: the anthropological concept of a tool. In the era of analogue photography, photographers used their cameras. Contemporary cameras, whether in the form of the camera phone or as freestanding digital cameras with wireless connections, exist as devices within a communications network. For the non-representationalist, the world understood as meaningful text, as representation, is a conservative and restricted view and is replaced by a sense of its material and phenomenological richness. Photographers now view the world on the LCD screens that occupy the full width and height of the camera's slim body, held, with extended arms, away from the photographer's body.
