More-than-Human Photography - Multisensory Practices, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Making

This book challenges the image-centred orthodoxy in photography studies, shifting attention to the tactile, sonic and material interactions that unfold in darkrooms, commercial labs and manufacturing sites through which photographs emerge. Through a combination of artistic research, sensory ethnography and experimental aesthetics, it examines sites such as Bayeux London and the labs of Polaroid and Fujifilm to reveal the hidden infrastructures and embodied labour that shape photographic production. Filling a critical gap in photographic scholarship, this study invites readers to reframe photography as a multisensory, event-based practice.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene: Matter, Senses, and the More-than-Human in Photographic Practice.- Chapter 2: What Else is There?.- Chapter 3: Sensing Through Method.- Chapter 4: Sensuousness and Making as Event.- Chapter 5: More-than-Human Photography.

About the author

Andrea Jaeger
is a UK-based artist, researcher and lecturer in photography at De Montfort University. 

Summary

This book challenges the image-centred orthodoxy in photography studies, shifting attention to the tactile, sonic and material interactions that unfold in darkrooms, commercial labs and manufacturing sites through which photographs emerge. Through a combination of artistic research, sensory ethnography and experimental aesthetics, it examines sites such as Bayeux London and the labs of Polaroid and Fujifilm to reveal the hidden infrastructures and embodied labour that shape photographic production. Filling a critical gap in photographic scholarship, this study invites readers to reframe photography as a multisensory, event-based practice.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Jaeger
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.12.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9783032097408
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3209740-8
• No. of pages: 126
• Illustrations: XIV, 126 p. 35 illus., 25 illus. in color.
• Series: Social Visualities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Fotografie, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Kulturwissenschaften, Photography, Sociology of Culture, Artistic Research, Visual Culture, Posthumanism, Posthuman Photography, Experimental Image-Making, Materiality in Photography, Sensory Aesthetics, More-than-Human Agency