A real notebook of the digital experience, the history book of digital photography, from the shared image to André Gunthert’s selfie, recreates the debates, recorded as and when they hatched. An indispensible analysis to understand better the place of the fluid image – dematerialized, connected, shared – analysis, in the contemporary universe.
A technical revolution as much as a social phenomenon, the swing to the digital image was caused by a small number of mutations that fundamentally transformed our practice and changed our view of the world. “Can there be a better gift, for a historian, than to live through one of these moments when history is speeding up. It was because of the conviction of being present when history is happening that I concentrated my attention on the rapid evolution of visual practice.”
BOOK
Histoire de la photographie numérique
De l’image partagée au selfie
By André Gunthert
Publisher Textuel
Collection « L’écriture photographique » directed by Clément Chéroux
23 september 2015
224 pages
16 x 21
29 €
With the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques
