The Camera: Essence and Apparatus
by Victor Burgin
Photographs: Victor Burgin
Text: Victor Burgin
Publisher: Mack
Year: May 2018
ISBN: ISBN 9781912339068
Price: 20.90 €
Comments: Softcover with flaps, 14 cm x 22,8 cm
Victor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his artistic practice he produced a series of groundbreaking theoretical essays that drew on semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism in order to think through the ideological role of photographs in the production of beliefs and values, and in the understanding of memory, history, subjectivity and space.
In the last decade or so, Burgin has worked with computer-generated imagery and the virtual camera. But rather than accepting a radical divide between so-called ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ realms, Burgin has emphasised the continuity of the virtual camera, the various physical cameras in use today, and the painted images of Quattrocento painting – all of which have their essence in the perspectival system of representation. Further to this, Burgin argues that no image is merely an optical experience – all images are essentially psychological events and thus virtual also. Inseparable from language, they form the psychical spaces of fantasy and projection, recognition and misrecognition. Whether on pages, walls or screens, in galleries or online, single views, or swarms of picture fragments, images are the making and unmaking of our sense of self, and the world around us.
This collection brings together for the first time Victor Burgin’s writings related specifically to the camera, following the shifts and nuances in his thinking over nearly five decades. Moreover, it allows us to chart the evolution of what the camera was and is, and how its affects are to be understood.
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by Victor Burgin
Photographs: Victor Burgin
Text: Victor Burgin
Publisher: Mack
Year: May 2018
ISBN: ISBN 9781912339068
Price: 20.90 €
Comments: Softcover with flaps, 14 cm x 22,8 cm
Victor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his artistic practice he produced a series of groundbreaking theoretical essays that drew on semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism in order to think through the ideological role of photographs in the production of beliefs and values, and in the understanding of memory, history, subjectivity and space.
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The Camera: Essence and Apparatus
by Victor Burgin
Photographs: Victor Burgin
Text: Victor Burgin
Publisher: Mack
Year: May 2018
ISBN: ISBN 9781912339068
Price: 20.90 €
Comments: Softcover with flaps, 14 cm x 22,8 cm
Victor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his artistic practice he produced a series of groundbreaking theoretical essays that drew on semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism in order to think through the ideological role of photographs in the production of beliefs and values, and in the understanding of memory, history, subjectivity and space.
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