What Is A Photographic Register?

Wilson, Dawn M

Abstract

This Discussion Piece is a response to Mark Windsor's Discussion Piece (2023) 'Photographic Registers are Latent Images', which is a response to my article, (2021) 'Invisible Images and Indeterminacy: Why we need a Multi-stage Account of Photography' JAAC 79(2) 161-174..

I argue that a photosensitive surface does not produce invisible pictorial features when it is exposed to light, and conclude, contra Windsor, that a photographic register is not a latent image. I argue that Windsor does not succeed in defending a single-stage account of photography and I reconfirm that a multi-stage account is correct.

Citation

Wilson, D. M. (in press). What Is A Photographic Register?. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad027

• Journal Article Type: Commentary
• Acceptance Date: Feb 20, 2023
• Deposit Date: May 19, 2023
• Journal: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• Print ISSN: 0021-8529
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Item Discussed: Mark Windsor 'Photographic Registers are Latent Images' JAAC, March 2023 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad017
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad027
• Keywords: Photography; Photograph; Multi-stage Account; Latent Image; chemical development
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• Publisher URL: https://academic.oup.com/jaac