Abstract
This essay looks at contemporary mobile photography through its photographic history and its technical convergence with computer science. It proposes that photography has always been mobile and not, as the term suggests through its current use, only recently so. Considering recent writing that proposes new ways of interacting with the theory of photography through the socio-technical it incorporates discussions from Martin Lister, Daniel Rubinstein and Katrina Sluis, and Sarah Kember amongst prior established photographic theory. Throughout, it also looks at the ways in which contemporary artists address perceptions around the complexities of ‘mobile photography’. Focusing on the ways in which the digital mobile image is perceived through the way it is now shot, edited and distributed with mobile devices this essay proposes that contemporary mobile photography is transient, immediate and multivalent, yet still emerging in a perpetually shifting culture.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Companion to Photography |
| Editors | Stephen Bull |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell |
| Chapter | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118598764 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405195843 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- mobile photography
- photography
- transience
- networked image
- algorithmic photography
- selfie
- immateriality
- remediation
- digital technologies