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Images on the Move

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This edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move—ranging from wired phot...
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  • 15 April 2022
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In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mobility of images is neither technologically nor conceptually limited to the realm of the digital. The edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move – ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media.
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Pages: 288
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 15 April 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837652468
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism
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»Alle elf versammelten Beiträge sowie das Vorwort der Herausgeberin sind lesenswert.«
Olga Moskatova is professor for media theory at University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main. Her fields of research include theory and aesthetics of visual media, materiality of media, networked images and media of immunization.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. Introduction: Trajectories of Images 7
2. Greetings from Chicago: Image Networks and Infrastructures of Postcard Production and Circulation 31
3. Techniques of Transmission: Wire Service Photography and the Digital Image 53
4. Calm Images: The Invisible Visual Culture of Digital Image Distribution 73
5. Unmoving Bodies: In-Flight Entertainment, Infrastructural Images and Cultural Techniques of Sitting 87
6. Cartes-de-Visite, Miniaturization and the Materiality of Circulation 109
7. Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics 135
8. What Makes a Download a Stream? 155
9. What Moves? The Itineraries of Pre-Digital Photography 189
10. Moved by Rubens: The Double Logic of Image Perception in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1877-1977) 209
11. Follow the Films. Reuses of a Research Film: Biography, Recycling, Whitewashing, Appropriation and Palimpsesting 231
12. Extraterrestrial Images 259
List of Illustrations 279
Contributors 283