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A LIFE MORE PHOTOGRAPHIC
Daniel Rubinstein
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; Katrina Sluis
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Department of Arts Media and English, Faculty of Human Sciences, London South Bank University, London
SE1 0AA, UK
Online Publication Date: 01 March 2008
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Daniel Rubinstein
Katrina Sluis
A LIFE MORE PHOTOGRAPHIC
Mapping the networked image
Twenty-two years since the arrival of the first consumer digital camera, Western culture is
now characterized by ubiquitous photography. The disappearance of the camera inside the
mobile phone has ensured that even the most banal moments of the day can become a point of
photographic reverie, potentially shared instantly. Supported by the increased affordability
of computers, digital storage and access to broadband, consumers are provided with new
opportunities for the capture and transmission of images, particularly online where snapshot
photography is being transformed from an individual to a communal activity. As the digital
image proliferates online and becomes increasingly delivered via networks, numerous
practices emerge surrounding the images transmission, encoding, ordering and reception.
Informing these practices is a growing cultural shift towards a conception of the Internet as a
platform for sharing and collaboration, supported by a mosaic of technologies termed Web
2.0. In this article we attempt to delineate the field of snapshot photography as this practice
shifts from primarily being a print-oriented to a transmission-oriented, screen-based
experience. We observe how the alignment of the snapshot with the Internet results in the
emergence of new photographies in which the photographic image interacts with established
and experimental media forms raising questions about the ways in which digital
photography is framed institutionally and theoretically.
Introduction
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Photographies Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 928
ISSN 1754-0763 print/ISSN 1754-0771 online 2008 Taylor & Francis
http://www.informaworld.com DOI: 10.1080/17540760701785842
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Daniel Rubinstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Media and English
at London South Bank University where he directs a BA in Digital Photography.
Previously he studied history at Tel-Aviv University and photography at London College
of Printing and has written about camera phone photography. Currently he is working
on a PhD thesis concerned with the relationship between photography, philosophy and
culture. Address: Department of Arts Media and English, Faculty of Human Sciences,
London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK. [email:
rubinsd@lsbu.ac.uk]
Katrina Sluis is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Media and English at
London South Bank University where she co-ordinates the BA (Hons) Digital Media
Arts. Her teaching and scholarly interests include cultures of mobile multimedia,
critical theory and digital art. As a practising artist, she works with painting,
photography and digital media to explore materiality, archiving and transmission in
relation to the photographic image. Address: Department of Arts Media and English,
Faculty of Human Sciences, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1
0AA, UK. [email: sluiskp@lsbu.ac.uk]
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