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Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing machine
- Title
- Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing machine / Yanai Toister.
- Author
- Toister, Yanai
- Publication
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2020.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TR183 .T65 2020 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 233 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- 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
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 1789381568
- 9781789381566
- 9781789381573 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781789381580 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1120133354
- 1120133354
- SCSB-9732288
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library