Digital Photography and Everyday Life

Digital Photography and Everyday Life

by Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio
Released May 2016
Publisher(s): Routledge
ISBN: 9781317447771

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Book description

Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical studies on material visual practices explores the role that digital photography plays within everyday life.

With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a range of academic disciplines - including anthropology, media studies and visual culture - this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective on photography by situating the image-making process in wider discussions on the materiality and visuality of photographic practices and explores these through empirical case studies.

By focusing on material visual practices, the book presents a comprehensive overview of some of the main challenges digital photography is bringing to everyday life. It explores how the digitization of photography has a wide-reaching impact on the use of the medium, as well as on the kinds of images that can be produced and the ways in which camera technology is developed. The exploration goes beyond mere images to think about cameras, mediations and technologies as key elements in the development of visual digital cultures.

Digital Photography and Everyday Life will be of great interest to students and scholars of Photography, Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Media Studies, as well as those studying Communication, Cultural Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Why material visual practices?
  12. Part I Variance in use in everyday photography
    1. 1 'I'm a picture girl!' Mobile photography in Tanzania
    2. 2 'Today I dressed like this': selling clothes and playing for celebrity: self-representation and consumption on Facebook
    3. 3 Amplification and heterogeneity: seniors and digital photographic practices
    4. 4 Illness, death and grief: the daily experience of viewing and sharing digital images
    5. 5 The Boston Marathon bombing investigation as an example of networked journalism and the power of big data analytics
    6. 6 Variance in everyday photography
  13. Part II Cameras, connectivity and transformed localities
    1. 7 Photographs of place in phonespace: camera phones as a location-aware mobile technology
    2. 8 (Digital) photography, experience and space in transnational families: a case study of Spanish-Irish families living in Ireland
    3. 9 Visual politics and material semiotics: the digital camera's translation of political protest
    4. 10 Linked photography: a praxeological analysis of augmented reality navigation in the early twentieth century
    5. 11 Photographic places and digital wayfaring: conceptualizing relationships between cameras, connectivities and transformed localities
  14. Part III Camera as the extension of the photographer
    1. 12 Exploring everyday photographic routines through the habit of noticing
    2. 13 'Analogization': reflections on wearable cameras and the changing meaning of images in a digital landscape
    3. 14 Photo-genic assemblages: photography as a connective interface
    4. 15 The camera as a sensor: the visualization of everyday digital photography as simulative, heuristic and layered pictures
    5. 16 Is the camera an extension of the photographer?
    6. 17 Outlook: photographic wayfaring, now and to come
  15. Index

Product information

  • Title: Digital Photography and Everyday Life
  • Author(s): Edgar Gómez Cruz, Asko Lehmuskallio
  • Release date: May 2016
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781317447771