Unit 7 Essay| Photography- “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce”; The infinite plurality of readings with specific reference to Martin Lister’s ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’

Photography- “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce”; The infinite plurality of readings with specific reference to Martin Lister’s ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’ 

With specific references to pages 220-224 of Martin Listers ‘ The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’ (1995), throughout this essay I will dissect how the digital-technological revolution associated with ‘post-photography’ – marked by a pervasive image culture that celebrates the convergence of photographic technologies and digital manipulation in the creation of often ‘invisible’ imagery – is at once both farcical and far reaching as a hypermedia

Chapters:

1. The ‘Death of Photography’ – pg 29
2. Hegel: Technological revolution as the reinvention of the old predecessor or ‘The New Old’ – pg 220-223
3. Far-reaching technological innovation and the resulting disillusionment (The blurred boundaries between the real and the invisible)- pg 33?
4. Benjamin’s technological determinism (no change in perception or consciousness) – pg 229

Artists/Works:

1. Paris, Texas (film)
2. Mad Max
3. Macbeth

Photographs:

• John Baldessari
• David Hockney
• Dianne Arbus

Texts:

1. Walter Benjamin
2. Roland Barthes
3. Susan Sontag

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the  body’s new membrane of existence – Nam June Pak