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Digital Image Systems: Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School
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Abstract In Digital Image Systems, the author 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 ... view more
In Digital Image Systems, the author 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".... view less
Keywords
art; photography; digitalization; computer; new technology; Federal Republic of Germany; art history; twenty-first century
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
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Culture; Düsseldorf School; European Art; Visual Studies; Fine Arts
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
350 p.
Series
Image
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839439029
ISBN
978-3-8394-3902-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0