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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404104903321

Autore

Gunti Claus

Titolo

Digital Image Systems : Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School / Claus Gunti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

3-8394-3902-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Image ; 116

Disciplina

771

Soggetti

Photography; Art; Digital; Culture; Computer; Germany; Düsseldorf School; Thomas Ruff; Andreas Gursky; Jörg Sasse; Art History of the 21st Century; European Art; Visual Studies; Fine Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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«.