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f Reconsidering cameraless photography
- Source: Philosophy of Photography, Volume 13, Issue Reconsidering Cameraless Photography, Apr 2022, p. 3 - 15
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Abstract
This article introduces the Special Issue on cameraless photography and the translation of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s treatise on electrical figures. It summarizes previous discussions on cameraless photography, namely those by Geoffrey Batchen and suggests relating the photogram to current post-lenticular technologies such as radiography, digital scanning or machine vision. It outlines the emergence of cameraless imaging in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific research, taking Lichtenberg’s figures as an emblem of automatically generated images situated between duration and instantaneity, between image making and measurement, between nature and culture.
Funding
- Czech Science Foundation (Award 19-26865X)
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