The focus of these explorations is not on great photographers and famous names, not on the classics and incunabula of the history of photography, but on perhaps strange but nevertheless important questions:
Why are cyborgs interested in photographs (even though they have no history of their own)?
Can you photograph elves (and then how can you defend such images publicly)?
Why do we photograph clouds (there is little to see from them)?
Are there abstract photographs (although photographs always seem to have a connection to the object)?
Is it possible to travel photographically without leaving your room (and yet explore distant worlds as if you were right there instead of just there)?
How do you photograph types (when you can only ever photograph individuals)?
Can images destroy (although they actually seem to have a more preservative character)?
Or finally: Is there such a thing as happy failure (even though failure is hardly a positive experience)?
The answers to these questions lead us back and forth through the history of photography and at the same time explore its boundaries.
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Author: Bernd Stiegler
Number of pages: 308 pages
Published: 1st edition 2012
ISBN: 978-3-7705-5401-0
Publisher: Fink
Type: Hardcover
Language: German
