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Digital Image Systems

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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 ima...
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  • 27 March 2020
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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«.
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Pages: 352
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Image
Publication Date: 27 March 2020
Trim Size: 8.66 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837639025
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / European
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Claus Gunti (PhD) is an art historian, writer and curator. He is lecturer at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and coordinator at the Centre de la photographie Genève.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 4
Introduction 8
A FRAMING THE DÜSSELDORF SCHOOL 20
B WHAT IS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY? 31
Introduction 40
A EMERGENCE OF A GERMAN DOCUMENTARY TRADITION 47
B THE END OF PHOTOGRAPHY 77
C DISCOURSE ON DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN GERMANY 98
Introduction 116
A PRE-DIGITAL MECHANISMS IN CONTEXT: 1960S / 1970S 120
B SERIAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND COMBINATORIAL FUNCTIONS: A TRANS-HISTORICAL PATTERN 137
Introduction 154
A DIGITAL RETOUCHING TOOLS 156
B DIGITAL STITCHING 175
C EARLY DIGITAL COMPOSITIONS 203
D THOMAS RUFF'S ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PORTRAIT 219
Introduction 240
A COMPLEX COMPOSITES: ANDREAS GURSKY'S GENERIC WORLD 243
B IMAGE RECYCLING AND APPROPRIATIVE POSITIONS 259
C THOMAS RUFF'S GENERATED PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION 300
D GENERIC PICTURE REALITIES 314
5 Conclusion 320
A BIBLIOGRAPHY 334
B INDEX 346
C ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 349