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oapen-20.500.12657-516012021-12-08T09:08:22Z Ubiquity Lewis, Jacob W. Parry, Kyle history of photography;ubiquity;media studies;visual studies;digital media;social media;internet studies;history of technology;art history;critical theory bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AJ Photography & photographs bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues::ABA Theory of art From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding of all manner of photographic media. Whether looking at a portrait image on the polished silver surface of the daguerreotype, or a viral image on the reflective glass of the smartphone, the experience of looking at photographs and thinking with photography is inseparable from the idea of ubiquity—that is, the apparent ability to be everywhere at once. While photography’s distribution across cultures today is undeniable, the insidious logics and pervasive myths that have governed its spread demand our critical attention, now more than ever. 2021-12-01T10:24:56Z 2021-12-01T10:24:56Z 2021 book 9789462702899 9789461664266 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51601 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789461664020 (1).pdf https://lup.be/products/130788 Leuven University Press 10.11116/9789461664020 10.11116/9789461664020 91436d3b-fb9a-45e9-8a57-08708b92dcda 608fbdcb-bd0a-4d50-9a26-902224692f76 1f649e7c-258f-4a73-9efc-4e2c052fffa0 8f940208-4046-4611-bb87-9895b58b04ed 9789462702899 9789461664266 304 Leuven KU Leuven Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Northwestern University NU University of California, Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz open access
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From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding of all manner of photographic media. Whether looking at a portrait image on the polished silver surface of the daguerreotype, or a viral image on the reflective glass of the smartphone, the experience of looking at photographs and thinking with photography is inseparable from the idea of ubiquity—that is, the apparent ability to be everywhere at once. While photography’s distribution across cultures today is undeniable, the insidious logics and pervasive myths that have governed its spread demand our critical attention, now more than ever.
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