03496 am 22005533u 450 991035333180332120240227004218.0978194747778310.21983/P3.0241.1.00(CKB)4100000009914131(OAPEN)1004706(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36607(EXLCZ)99410000000991413120200123h20192019 uy 0mulurmu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBeta exercise the theory and practice of Osamu Kanemura /edited by Marco Mazzi, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei ; translated by Michiyo Miyake & Nicholas MarshallBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2019[Santa Barbara, California] :Earth, Milky Way :punctum books,2019.©20191 online resource (227 pages) illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)9781947477776 Includes bibliographical references.Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique voice in the world of contemporary photography. The opening essay “Life Is a Gift” comments on the transformation of human life into an exchangeable commodity and the abstraction it entails. “Essay 01” develops Kanemura’s idea of photographic “technique” in an era when such techniques have become accessible to all, radically undermining the importance of human subjectivity in the process of capturing the photographic image: “We can say that modern technology constitutes photographic technique.” Instead, Kanemura argues, extra-technical elements such as concept and vision will have to compensate for the expression of individuality that technique is no longer able to convey. Taking cues from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the essay “Dead-Stick Landing” develops Kanemura’s theory of the moving image as mechanical system, solely governed by an “on-off switch.” “Essay 02” develops these ideas into a consideration of cinematic time and the experience of boredom in cinema as the result of a truthful “loyalty” expressed to machines, and not to stories. The essays are accompanied by an extensive two-part interview with Italian photographer Marco Mazzi, touching upon topics ranging from the technical aspects of his equipment, the concept of non-editing, and the destruction of the frame to the similarity between Mao’s dialectics and the camera, the presence of the human figure as trace, and the politics of photographing Tokyo.PhotographyJapanPhotography, ArtisticArchitectural photographyphotographymedia studiesOsamu KanemuraJapanaestheticsPhotographyPhotography, Artistic.Architectural photography.779Kanemura Osamuauth1088339Mazzi MarcoGerven Oei Vincent W. J. van1983-Miyake MichiyoMarshall NicholasUkMaJRUBOOK9910353331803321Beta exercise3386687UNINA