As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing more reliable representations of reality. But as an achievement of technological modernity, photography can also be seen as a way to realize a creation of the imagination more vividly than can painting or drawing. Photography and Imagination investigates, from diverse points of view focusing on both theory and practice, the relation between these two terms. The book explores their effect on photographys capacity, through various forms and modalities of imaginative investments and displacements, to affect even reality itself.
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| Introduction |
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PART 1 Techniques of the Imagination |
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1 Cat in the Window? A Closer Look at How People Try to Have a Closer Look |
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2 The Surface-Depth of Photography's Stereoscopic Imagination |
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3 Radiant Matter: X-Ray Photography and the Visual Imagination of Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann |
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4 The Artemidorus Papyrus: Imagination and the Digital-Photographic Archaeology of Pictures |
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5 Photography's Imagination: The Visible and the Invisible |
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PART 2 Imagining and Encountering Others |
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6 Photography and the Imagination of Authorship: Karl May's Picture Cards from 1896 |
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7 Photography and Imagination in Nazi "Racial Science" |
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8 Attentiveness and Visual Imagination in Looking and Photographing: A Gay Liberation Rally in Chicago 1970 |
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9 The Performative Index: James VanDerZee, Roland Barthes, Lorna Simpson, and the Photographic Imagination |
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PART 3 Images of a New World |
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10 Photography and the Possibility of Return |
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11 Queering Imagination, Queering Futurity: A Methodological Approach to Military Photography |
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12 The Idol of Imagination: Manhatta |
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| Epilogue: Photography and the Question of the Image |
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Amos Morris-Reich is Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Thought at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Margaret Olin is Senior Research Scholar in the Divinity School at Yale University, USA.
