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Philosophy of Photography 12.1-2 is out now

Intellect is pleased to announce that Philosophy of Photography 12.1-2 is out now!

Welcome to the double issue 12.1&2 that makes up Volume 12 of Philosophy of Photography (POP).

Continuing our recent series of interviews with photographers, artists and writers the issue opens with a conversation between Anthony Downey and Shona Illingworth. Their discussion focuses on two major bodies of work by Illingworth, Lesions in the Landscape (2015) and Topologies of Air (2021), multi-channel digital video installations which explore the political, psychological and environmental impact of the military, industrial and corporate colonization and transformation of airspace. This interview is free to access.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/philosophy-of-photography

Aims & Scope

Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. It is not committed to any one notion of photography nor, indeed, to any particular philosophical approach. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for debate on theoretical issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that may be said to constitute photography as a multifaceted form. In a contemporary context remarkable for its diversity and rate of change, the conjunction of the terms ‘philosophy’ and ‘photography’ in the journal’s title is intended to act as a provocation to serious reflection on the ways in which existing and emergent photographic discourses might engage with and inform each other.

Issue 12.1-2

Editorial

Interview (free to access)

Topologies of Air and the Airspace Tribunal: Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey

SHONA ILLINGWORTH AND ANTHONY DOWNEY

Roundtable Discussion

The promise of photography: Scale, measure and proportion in a conflicted visual milieu

ANDREW FISHER, ANKE HENNIG, BERND BEHR, DANIEL RUBINSTEIN, MARTIN CHARVÁT, PETER SZENDY AND TOMÁŠ DVOŘÁK

Articles

One face, millions of faces: Computer vision as hyperobject

SHEUNG YIU

Jpegs: Thomas Ruff and the horror of digital photography