Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Color Plates......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Photography and Ontology: An Introduction......Page 12
Unsettling Images: The Essays......Page 15
Notes......Page 20
Chapter 1: Ontology or Metaphor?......Page 21
Metaphors They Photographed By......Page 22
The Sun Picture......Page 23
Mirror, Memory, Shadow, Vision......Page 26
Index......Page 28
Notes......Page 32
The Man in a Smart Suit......Page 35
Waldmü llerstrasse 1......Page 38
Smugglers and the Opel Kapitan......Page 42
Operation Biscaya......Page 47
Unsettling the Archive......Page 48
Notes......Page 49
Chapter 3: Dark Archive: The Afterlife of Forensic Photographs......Page 52
Notes......Page 63
Chapter 4: Hard Looks: Faces, Bodies, Lives in Early Sydney Police Portrait Photography......Page 67
“Birds of Passage”......Page 69
Identity Games......Page 71
Forget Me Not......Page 72
Digital Mobilities......Page 74
Four Rememberings......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 79
Notes......Page 81
Chapter 5: Anticipatory Photographs: Sarah Pickering and An-My Lê......Page 83
An-My Lê : Imagining Wars......Page 89
Notes......Page 94
Introduction......Page 106
The City of Blood......Page 107
Fantastique Social......Page 109
The Pichard Image......Page 115
Notes......Page 120
Chapter 7: The Presence of Video: Making the Displaced and Disappeared Self Visible......Page 123
Notes......Page 135
Chapter 8: Contemplating Life: Rinko Kawauchi’s Autobiography of Seeing......Page 138
Photography and Life 1: Photography in/as Autobiography......Page 139
Photography and Life 2: Photography and the Self......Page 140
Photography and Life 3: Personal Photography and the Photo-Diarist......Page 141
Reframing the Personal: Kawauchi and the Photobook......Page 143
Child-like, Dream-like: Kawauchi’s Mode of Looking......Page 144
Kawauchi’s Equivalence of Attention......Page 145
Conclusion......Page 146
Notes......Page 147
Between Political Economy and Psychoanalysis: Benjamin Buchloh and Margaret Iversen on Orozco’s Photography......Page 151
Jacques Ranciè re on Artistic Modernity and Aesthetic Experience......Page 153
Orozco’s Photographs and the Suspension of Productive Time......Page 156
Notes......Page 161
Chapter 10: Photography as Indexical Data: Hans Eijkelboom and Pattern Recognition Algorithms......Page 163
Hans Eijkelboom......Page 166
The Computer as Hyperviewer: Photography and “Deep Learning”......Page 170
The Data Selfie: From Google to Amazon’s Echo Look......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 178
Notes......Page 180
Chapter 11: Afterword: Photography Against Ontology......Page 185
Ontology Against Photography......Page 186
Relational Ontology......Page 187
Variable Ontology......Page 190
The Political Ontology of Photography......Page 192
Notes......Page 194
Contributors......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 200
Index......Page 213