Digital Image Systems - Photography and New Technologies at the Düsseldorf School

In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful to film-based technologies. By evaluating the aesthetic and discursive preconditions of this situation and by extensively analyzing the digital work of these three photographers, this book shows that the digital turn in photography was anticipated by the conceptualization of images within systems, and thus offers new perspectives for understanding the »digital revolution«.

About the author

Claus Gunti (PhD) is an art historian, writer and curator. He is lecturer at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) and coordinator at the Centre de la photographie Genève.

Summary

In Digital Image Systems, Claus Gunti examines the antagonizing reactions to digital technologies in photography. While Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky and Jörg Sasse have gradually adopted digital imaging tools in the early 1990s, other photographers from the Düsseldorf School have remained faithful to film-based technologies. By evaluating the aesthetic and discursive preconditions of this situation and by extensively analyzing the digital work of these three photographers, this book shows that the digital turn in photography was anticipated by the conceptualization of images within systems, and thus offers new perspectives for understanding the »digital revolution«.

Product details

• Authors: Claus Gunti
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2020
• EAN: 9783837639025
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3902-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 220 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Series: Image; Image
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Kunstgeschichte, Europa, Fotojournalismus, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Kunst, allgemein, Fotografie / Dokumentarfotografie, Geschichte, Art; Culture; Computer; Germany; Thomas Ruff; Andreas Gursky; Jörg Sasse; Art History of the 21st Century; European Art; Visual Studies; Fine Arts