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Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, D. (2024). Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion. Debates in Aesthetics, 18(2), 101-118

I reply to three authors who responded to my target article: 'Music, Visualization and the Multi-stage Account of Photography'. Mikael Pettersson raises concerns about absent light because traditional theories suppose that a photograph is a causal tr... Read More about Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion.

Music, Visualization and the Multi-Stage Account of Photography (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, D. (2024). Music, Visualization and the Multi-Stage Account of Photography. Debates in Aesthetics, 18(2), 13-46

Like his contemporary, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams claimed that visualization is essential for creating fine art photography. But, unlike Weston, he believed that a print from a negative is like a performance from a score. In his analogy, a photograph... Read More about Music, Visualization and the Multi-Stage Account of Photography.

Against Imprinting: The Photographic Image as a Source of Evidence (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, D. M. (in press). Against Imprinting: The Photographic Image as a Source of Evidence. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 89(4),

A photographic image is said to provide evidence of a photographed scene because it is a causal imprint of reflected light: an indexical trace of real objects and events. Though widely established in the history, theory and philosophy of photography,... Read More about Against Imprinting: The Photographic Image as a Source of Evidence.

Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture (2022)
Journal Article
Wilson, D. (2022). Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 122(2), 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoac008

Photography is valued as a medium for recording and visually reproducing features of the world. I seek to challenge the view that photography is fundamentally a recording process and that every photograph is a record — a view that I claim is based on... Read More about Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture.

Invisible Images and Indeterminacy: Why We Need a Multi-stage Account of Photography (2021)
Journal Article
Wilson, D. M. (2021). Invisible Images and Indeterminacy: Why We Need a Multi-stage Account of Photography. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 79(2), 161-174. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab005

Some photographs show determinate features of a scene because the photographed scene had those features. This dependency relation is, rightly, a consensus in philosophy of photography. I seek to refute many long-established theories of photography by... Read More about Invisible Images and Indeterminacy: Why We Need a Multi-stage Account of Photography.

A class act : class and taste in the work of Grayson Perry (2016)
Thesis
Walsh, S. J. A class act : class and taste in the work of Grayson Perry. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219438

[Summary]:
Part One (Chapters 1- 3) discusses the theoretical and historical development of our ideas about class and the intersections of class and taste. Part Two (Chapters 4-8) focuses on Perry’s work. Chapter One explores the differing conceptio... Read More about A class act : class and taste in the work of Grayson Perry.

Facing the camera: Self-portraits of photographers as artists (2012)
Journal Article
Wilson, D. M. (2012). Facing the camera: Self-portraits of photographers as artists. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 70(1), 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01498.x

Self-portrait photography presents an elucidatory range of cases for investigating the relationship between automatism and artistic agency in photography-a relationship that is seen as a problem in the philosophy of art. I discuss self-portraits by p... Read More about Facing the camera: Self-portraits of photographers as artists.

Wittgenstein's 'Picture-Theory' and the Aesthetic Experience of Clear Thoughts (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, D. Wittgenstein's 'Picture-Theory' and the Aesthetic Experience of Clear Thoughts. Presented at 33rd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium, 2010, Kirchberg

In the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Wittgenstein appeals to clarity when he characterises the aim, task and results of philosophy. In this essay I suggest that his ‘picture theory’ of language implies that clarity has aesthetic significance in phil... Read More about Wittgenstein's 'Picture-Theory' and the Aesthetic Experience of Clear Thoughts.

Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs (2009)
Journal Article
Phillips, D. M. (2009). Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs. Postgraduate journal of aesthetics, 6(2), 1-22

It has been argued that photographs are unsuitable or inferior candidates for art because they are not intimately bound to the mind of an artist. I believe that we can address scepticism in the philosophy of art only if we recognise that it is linked... Read More about Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs.