Introduction: on the sclae, quantity and measure of images / Jussi Parikka and Tomas Dvorak -- Mass image, anthropocene image, image commons / Sean Cubitt -- Beyond human measure: eccentric metrics in visual culture / Tomas Dvorak -- Living with the excessive scale of contemporary photography / Andrew Fisher -- Feeling photos: photography, picture language and mood capture / Michelle Henning -- Online weak and poor images: on contemporary feminist visual politics / Tereza Stejskalova -- Photography's mise en abyme: metapictures of scale in repurposed slide libraries / Annebella Pollen -- The failed photographs of photography: on the analogue and slow photography movement / Michal Simunek -- Strangely unique: pictorial aesthetics in teh age of image abundance / Josef Ledvina -- On seeing where there's nothing to see: practices of light beyond photography / Jussi Parikka -- Planetary diagrams: towards an autographic theory of climate emergency / Lukas Likavcan, Paul Heinicker -- Undigital photography: image-making beyond computation and AI / Joanna Zylinska -- Coda: photography in the age of massification. A correspondence between Joan Fontcuberta and Geoffrey Batchen.
Summary:
These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography.
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