Digital image systems : photography and new technologies at the Düsseldorf School /

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Author / Creator:Gunti, Claus, author.
Imprint:Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2020]
©2019
Description:1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Language:English
Series:Image ; [116]
Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 116.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12404803
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Other authors / contributors:Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funder.
ISBN:3839439027
9783839439029
9783837639025
3837639029
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Series number missing in the book.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-344) and index.
Open Access
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020).
Summary:How have digital technologies affected the truth claim of photography? What has been the artistic response to the technological and societal transformations the digital revolution has brought about?Claus Gunti explores the widespread implications of the digital in the work of renowned photographers of the Düsseldorf School, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse, stretching from ties to conceptual art to the development of a globalized visual culture. The study provides a model for understanding the digital revolution in photography and shows that it ought to be understood beyond a strictly technological perspective.
Standard no.:10.14361/9783839439029