Dr Dawn Wilson Dawn.Wilson@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture
Wilson, Dawn
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Abstract
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 a ‘single-stage’ misconception of the process. I propose an alternative, ‘multi-stage’ account in which I argue that causal registration of light is not equivalent to recording and reproducing an image. Intervention or non-intervention by photographers is more sophisticated than the traditional view allows. Using the multi-stage account, I describe four models for producing photographic images and pictures.
Citation
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
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 16, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 22, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-07 |
Deposit Date | Aug 5, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 23, 2023 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society |
Print ISSN | 0066-7374 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-9264 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 122 |
Issue | 2 |
Article Number | VII |
Pages | 141-164 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoac008 |
Keywords | Photograph; Recording; Image; Picture; Digital; Light; Technology |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4045440 |
Additional Information | The accepted manuscript is embargoed until 20 July 2023 (12 months after publication of the version of record). |
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society following peer review. The version of record Wilson, D. (2022). Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 122(2), 141-164. is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoac008
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