
Dopo la fotografia
- Publisher
- Einaudi
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9788806211943
- Specifications
- Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi Ns
pp. XVIII-222
Translated by Chiara Veltri
Dopo la fotografia examines the countless ways in which the digital revolution has completely changed our consumption of visual information, from news photographs taken with mobile phones to the pervasive use of video surveillance. At the same time, the far greater possibility of manipulating any image has made photography a document of ambiguous identity, calling into question its role in recounting events, whether public or private. Following the tradition of study traced by John Berger and Susan Sontag, Fred Ritchin analyses the failures and still untapped potential of a medium in continuous evolution, arguing that the digital revolution is transforming images into a hypertextual system that has radically changed the way we conceptualise the world, and that the hyperlinks attached to a networked photograph offer immense opportunities for dialogue and mutual enrichment.