Free shipping on orders over $99
Copy, Archive, Signature

Copy, Archive, Signature

A Conversation on Photography

by Jacques Derrida
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/07/2010

Share This Book:

 
$71.99
This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation, the volatility of the authorial subject, and the concept of memory. Derrida offers a penetrating intervention with regard to the distinctive nature of photography vis-a-vis related technologies such as cinema, television, and video. Questioning the all-too-facile divides between so-called old and new media, original and reproduction, analog and digital modes of recording and presenting, he provides stimulating insights into the ways in which we think and speak about the photographic image today. Along the way, the discussion fruitfully interrogates the question of photography in relation to such key concepts as copy, archive, and signature. Gerhard Richter introduces the volume with a critical meditation on the relationship between deconstruction and photography by way of the concepts of translation and invention. Copy, Archive, Signature will be of compelling interest to readers in the fields of contemporary European critical thought, photography, aesthetic theory, media studies, and French Studies, as well as those following the singular intellectual trajectory of one the most influential thinkers of our time.
ISBN:
9780804760966
9780804760966
Category:
Photographic equipment & techniques
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
13-07-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
112
Dimensions (mm):
178x114x15mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Click 'Notify Me' to get an email alert when this item becomes available

Reviews

Be the first to review Copy.