Virtual Photography - Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality

While it has traditionally been seen as a means of documenting an external reality or expressing an internal feeling, photography is now capable of actualizing never-existed pasts and never-lived experiences. Thanks to the latest photographic technologies, we can now take photos in computer games, interpolate them in extended reality platforms, or synthesize them via artificial intelligence. To account for the most recent shifts in conceptualizations of photography, this book proposes the term virtual photography as a binding theoretical framework, defined as a photography that retains the efficiency and function of real photography (made with or without a camera) while manifesting these in an unfamiliar or noncustomary form.

About the author

Ali Shobeiri is assistant professor of photography and visual culture at Leiden University.
Helen Westgeest is associate professor of modern and contemporary art history and theory of photography at Leiden University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ali Shobeiri (Editor), Westgeest (Editor), Helen Westgeest (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9783837672039
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7203-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 18 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Illustrations: 4 farb. Abb.
• Series: Image
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Kunsttheorie, Photography, art, Medienwissenschaften, Media Studies, Digitalization, Cultural Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Studies, auseinandersetzen, Virtual Photography, In-Game Photography, Photography Theory, Extended Realities