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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. The Turin Shroud inspires a discussion on photography's frequently acclaimed 'ontological privilege', which has conditioned an understanding of photography as a sui generis breed of images wherein pictorial representation is coextensive with human vision. This is then contrasted with a discussion on the universal Turing machine, which integrates photography into a framework of media philosophy and algorithmic art. Here, photography becomes more than just the present-day sum of its depiction traditions, devices and dissemination networks. Rather, it is archetypical of multiple systems of abstraction and classification, and various other symbolic processes of transformation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Holy Shroud.
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Holy Shroud. |
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Turing machines.
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Turing machines. |
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Photography -- Technique.
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Photography -- Technique. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781789381580 (electronic book) |
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1789381584 (electronic book) |
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9781789381566 |
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