Digital Image Systems

Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3902-5
Verlag: Transcript Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 352 Seiten, Kt, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Image

In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful to film-based technologies. By evaluating the aesthetic and discursive preconditions of this situation and by extensively analyzing the digital work of these three photographers, this book shows that the digital turn in photography was anticipated by the conceptualization of images within systems, and thus offers new perspectives for understanding the 'digital revolution'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunti, Claus

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Über Autor(innen)

Claus Gunti (PhD) teaches history of contemporary art at the University of Neuchâtel (UniNe) and at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL). His research primarily focuses on digital imagery.