The Digital Image in Photographic Culture: Algorithmic Photography and the Crisis of Representation

Daniel Rubinstein; Katrina Sluis

doi:10.4324/9780203797563

The Digital Image in Photographic Culture: Algorithmic Photography and the Crisis of Representation

Daniel Rubinstein, Katrina Sluis

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Abstract

This chapter explores the transformation of the photographic image through differing conceptual and theoretical lenses including that of the algorithm, ‘technē’, continental philosophy and computer science. It contributes to debates in digital aesthetics, networked cultures and non-representational theory. Its innovation is in suggesting that the paradigm of representation, which was established during the European Renaissance, and through which a visual topography of the real world was kept in place, is now challenged by an image producing system based upon computation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
Editors	Martin Lister
Place of Publication	UK
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	2
Pages	22-40
Number of pages	19
Volume	1
Edition	2nd
ISBN (Print)	9780415535298
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203797563
Publication status	Published - 2013

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