Books Details
Author : Joanna Zylinska Pages : 272 pages Publisher : The MIT Press Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0262037025 ISBN-13 : 9780262037020
Books Descriptions
A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider
imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent.Today,
in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is
increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman
Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond
the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is
absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images produced by humans,
whether artists or amateurs, entail a nonhuman, mechanical element?that is, they
involve the execution of technical and cultural algorithms that shape our image-
making devices as well as our viewing practices. At the same time, she notes,
photography is increasingly mobilized to document the precariousness of the human
habitat and tasked with helping us imagine a better tomorrow. With its conjoined
human-nonhuman agency and vision, Zylinska
