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dc.contributor.authorColey, Rob
dc.contributor.authorLockwood, Dean
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T12:58:18Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2019-03-26 23:55
dc.date.submitted2020-01-23 14:09:07
dc.date.submitted2020-04-01T10:40:37Z
dc.identifier1004623
dc.identifierOCN: 1048149966
dc.identifierhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25472
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32424
dc.description.abstractIt’s easy to forget there’s a war on when the front line is everywhere encrypted in plain sight. Gathered in this book’s several chapters are dispatches on the role of photography in a War Universe, a space and time in which photographers such as Hilla Becher, Don McCullin and Eadweard Muybridge exist only insofar as they are a mark of possession, in the sway of larger forces. These photographers are conceptual personae that collectively fabulate a different kind of photography, a paraphotography in which the camera produces negative abyssal flashes or ‘endarkenment.’ In his Vietnam War memoir, Dispatches, Michael Herr imagines a ‘dropped camera’ receiving ‘jumping and falling’ images, images which capture the weird indivisibility of medium and mediated in a time of war. The movies and the war, the photographs and the torn bodies, fused and exchanged. Reporting from the chaos at the middle of things, Herr invokes a kind of writing attuned to this experience. Photography in the Middle, eschewing a high theoretical mode, seeks to exploit the bag of tricks that is the dispatch. The dispatch makes no grand statement about the progress of the war. Cultivating the most perverse implications of its sources, it tries to express what the daily briefing never can. Ports of entry in the script we’re given, odd and hasty little glyphs, unhelpful rips in the cover story, dispatches are futile, dark intuitions, an expeditious inefficacy. They are bleak but necessary responses to an indifferent world in which any action whatever has little noticeable effect.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherphotography
dc.subject.othermedia studies
dc.subject.othercultural theory
dc.subject.otherscience fiction
dc.subject.otherWilliam Burroughs
dc.titlePhotography in the Middle: Dispatches on Media Ecologies and Aesthetics
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0154.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1
oapen.relation.isbn9780998237510
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages176
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY


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