REPRESENTATIONAL MACHINES: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE.

Author: Dahlgren, Anna, Dag Petersson and Nina Lager Vestberg
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2013
No. of pages: 269
Illustrations: 40 Color Illustrations. 15 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 7”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9788771241655
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 6923

Price: $99.50

Since its inception in the 19th century, photography has brought to light a vast array of represented subjects. Always situated in some spatial order, photographic representations have been operatively underpinned by social, technical, and institutional mechanisms. Geographically, bodily, and geometrically, the camera has positioned its subjects in social structures and hierarchies, in recognisable localities, and in iconic depth constructions which, although they show remarkable variation, nevertheless belong specifically to the enterprises of the medium.This is the subject of Representational Machines: How photography enlists the workings of institutional technologies in search of establishing new iconic and social spaces. Together, the contributions to this edited volume span historical epochs, social environments, technological possibilities, and genre distinctions. Presenting several distinct ways of producing space photographically, this book opens a new and important field of inquiry for photography research.