ISBN: 978-80-7331-409-5 | ISBN online: 978-80-7331-759-1 | DOI: 10.62804/978-80-7331-409-5
Photography, as a fundamentally liminal phenomenon, oscillates between the ephemeral and the enduring, the dynamic and the static, the manifest and the hidden, science and magic, truth and fiction, document and monument, information and thing. As a historian and theorist of photography, Geoffrey Batchen is particularly interested in these liminal moments. Following in the intellectual tradition of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, he aims to broaden the existing understanding of the historiography of photography and focuses on the changing uses of this medium in various historical contexts, with an emphasis on so-called vernacular photography – that is, the photographs we encounter in everyday life (snapshots, holiday photos, etc. ). Such a new ‘history for photography’ can then speak more effectively to our lived experience, which is shaped by a deluge of intangible images in the online space.
1. edition, Published: 2016, online: 2026, publisher: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, Praha
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