Inadvertent Images

Author : Peter Geimer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226471877

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Inadvertent Images by Peter Geimer Pdf

As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the medium, as well as accidental images that occur through photo-like means, such as the image of Christ on the Shroud of Turin, brought into high resolution through photography. Geimer’s investigations complement the history of photographic images by cataloging a corresponding history of their symptoms, their precarious visibility, and the disruptions threatened by image noise. Interwoven with the familiar history of photography is a secret history of photographic artifacts, spots, and hazes that historians have typically dismissed as “spurious phenomena,” “parasites,” or “enemies of the photographer.” With such photographs, it is virtually impossible to tell where a “picture” has been disrupted—where the representation ends and the image noise begins. We must, Geimer argues, seek to keep both in sight: the technical making and the necessary unpredictability of what is made, the intentional and the accidental aspects, representation and its potential disruption.

Author : Jussi Parikka
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452969688

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Operational Images by Jussi Parikka Pdf

An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of machine vision. In this study, media theorist Jussi Parikka develops Farocki’s initial concept by considering the extent to which operational images have pervaded today’s visual culture, outlining how data technologies continue to develop and disrupt our understanding of images beyond representation. Charting the ways that operational images have been employed throughout a variety of fields and historical epochs, Parikka details their many roles as technologies of analysis, capture, measurement, diagramming, laboring, (machine) learning, identification, tracking, and destruction. He demonstrates how, though inextricable from issues of power and control, operational images extend their reach far beyond militaristic and colonial violence and into the realms of artificial intelligence, data, and numerous aspects of art, media, and everyday visual culture. Serving as an extensive guide to a key concept in contemporary art, design, and media theory, Operational Images explores the implications of machine vision and the limits of human agency. Through a wealth of case studies highlighting the areas where imagery and data intersect, this book gives us unprecedented insight into the ever-evolving world of posthuman visuality. Cover alt text: Satellite photo on which white title words appear in yellow boxes. Yellow lines connect the boxes.

Author : Saghir Iqbal
Publisher : Saghir Iqbal
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781717040404

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Miscalculation: Risks of Inadvertent Nuclear War by Saghir Iqbal Pdf

An impending nuclear holocaust is likely to happen, if the world community does not take action. A conflict that has been simmering for many years is beginning to spiral out of control. Two nuclear powers have an unresolved dispute that has increased tensions in the region. Both countries are purchasing and developing sophisticated state-of-the-art weapons that could unleash great terror and destruction on the populations of both countries – with also serious global ramifications. The world’s most dangerous flashpoint, has the highest chance of a nuclear war occurring – it is deemed by many to be more serious that the Cuban Missile Crisis and North Korea’s nuclear sabre rattling. The dispute needs to be amicably resolved between both nations and confidence building measures need to be implemented.

Author : Mary C. Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471127361

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Color for Interior Architecture by Mary C. Miller Pdf

This book examines the major considerations involved in color choice for interior spaces.

Author : Andrew R. Casper
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271091082

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An Artful Relic by Andrew R. Casper Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a human corpse was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Turin, Italy, as one of the original shrouds used to prepare Jesus Christ’s body for entombment. From that year into the next century, the Shroud of Turin emerged as Christianity’s preeminent religious artifact. In an unprecedented new look, Andrew R. Casper sheds new light on one of the world’s most famous and controversial religious objects. Since the early twentieth century, scores of scientists and forensic investigators have attributed the Shroud’s mysterious images to painterly, natural, or even supernatural forces. Casper, however, shows that this modern opposition of artifice and authenticity does not align with the cloth’s historical conception as an object of religious devotion. Examining the period of the Shroud’s most enthusiastic following, from the late 1500s through the 1600s, he reveals how it came to be considered an artful relic—a divine painting attributed to God’s artistry that contains traces of Christ’s body. Through probing analyses of materials created to perpetuate the Shroud’s cult following—including devotional, historical, and theological treatises as well as printed and painted reproductions—Casper uncovers historicized connections to late Renaissance and Baroque artistic cultures that frame an understanding of the Shroud’s bloodied corporeal impressions as an alloy of material authenticity and divine artifice. This groundbreaking book introduces rich, new material about the Shroud’s emergence as a sacred artifact. It will appeal to art historians specializing in religious and material studies, historians of religion, and to general readers interested in the Shroud of Turin.

Author : Amos Morris-Reich
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812298529

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Photography and Jewish History by Amos Morris-Reich Pdf

It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical contexts to the background. For Morris-Reich, however, photography exists within reality; it partakes in and is very much a component of the history it records. Morris-Reich examines how photography affects categories of history and experience, how it is influenced by them, and the ways in which our understanding of the relationship between history and photography can be theorized and reoriented. Morris-Reich here turns to five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect: Albert Kahn’s utopian attempt to establish a photographic archive in Paris in order to advance world peace; the spectacular failed project of Helmar Lerski, the most prominent photographer in British Mandate Jewish Palestine; photography in the long career of Eugen Fischer, a Nazi professor of genetics; the street photography of Robert Frank; and the first attempt to introduce photography into the study of Russian Jewry prior to World War I, as seen from the post-Holocaust perspective of the early twenty-first century. Illustrated with nearly 100 images, Photography and Jewish History moves beyond a focus on Jewish photographers or the photographic representation of Jews or Jewish visibility to plumb the deeper and more significant registers of twentieth-century Jewish political history.

Author : Herbert L. Blitzer,Jack Jacobia
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0121064115

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Forensic Digital Imaging and Photography by Herbert L. Blitzer,Jack Jacobia Pdf

"This hands-on guide clarifies the difference between what can be done digitally and what should be done in a forensic setting, and helps the reader "learn by doing" with exercises and step-by-step instructions. The images and exercises in the CD-ROM provide practical examples of the techniques described in the book." "Law enforcement professionals who follow the recommendations in this text can feel confident that their handling of imaging evidence will stand up to the high standards necessary for prosecuting criminal cases."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mrs. Gambold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Botany
ISBN : UIUC:30112085265178

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The American Journal of Science by Mrs. Gambold Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : UVA:X001679546

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The American Journal of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781452969817

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The Affect Lab by Grant Bollmer Pdf

Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Author : Geoff Bender,Rasmus R. Simonsen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789462702684

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Photography’s Materialities by Geoff Bender,Rasmus R. Simonsen Pdf

There is little dispute that photography is a material practice, and that the photograph itself is ineluctably material. And yet “matter,” “material,” and “materiality” have proven to be remarkably elusive terms of inquiry, frequently producing studies that are disparate in scope, sharing seemingly little common ground. Although the wide methodological range of materialist study can be dizzying, it is this book’s contention that that multiplicity is also the field’s greatest asset, keeping materialist inquiry enduringly vibrant—provided that varying methods are in close enough proximity to converse. Photography’s Materialities orchestrates one such conversation. Juxtaposing the insights of theorists like Lacan, Benjamin, and Latour beside close studies of crime, spirit, and composite photography, among others, this collection aims for a productive synergy, one capacious enough to span transatlantic spaces over the long nineteenth century. Contributors: Kris Belden-Adams (University of Mississippi), Maura Coughlin (Bryant University), David LaRocca (independent scholar), Jacob W. Lewis (University of Rochester), Mary Marchand (Goucher College), Zachary Tavlin (Art Institute of Chicago), Christa Holm Vogelius (University of Copenhagen)

Author : Susanne Foellmer,Maria Katharina Schmidt,Cornelia Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351330190

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Performing Arts in Transition by Susanne Foellmer,Maria Katharina Schmidt,Cornelia Schmitz Pdf

Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same time, the focus on that which remains has become central to any discussion of performance. Performing Arts in Transition explores what takes place in the moments of transition from one medium to another, and from the live performance to that which "survives" it. Case studies from a broad range of interdisciplinary scholars address phenomena such as: The dynamics of transfer between the performing and visual arts. The philosophy and terminologies of transitioning between media. Narratives and counternarratives in historical re-creations. The status of chronology and the document in art scholarship. This is an essential contribution to a vibrant, multidisciplinary and international field of research emerging at the intersections of performance, visual arts, and media studies.

Author : Virginia M. Kendall,T. Markus Funk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442264809

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Child Exploitation and Trafficking by Virginia M. Kendall,T. Markus Funk Pdf

Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual and labor exploitation. Put simply, the growing epidemic of child exploitation demands a coordinated response. In addition to compliance concerns raised by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), UK Bribery Act, and other more familiar transnational anti-corruption laws, today’s companies must also respond to more novel legal requirements, such as those contained in the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, Federal Acquisition Regulations on Trafficking in Persons in Federal Contracts, U.K. Modern Slavery Act of 2015, European Union’s Directive on Transparency and its amendments, and the proposed federal Business Transparency in Trafficking and Slavery Act and other laws. This Second Edition of Child Exploitation and Trafficking: Examining Global Enforcement and Supply Chain Challenges and U.S. Responses brings fresh, practical thinking to this oft-misunderstood area of the law, helping erase some of its counterproductive mythology. The book not only provides the first comprehensive, practical introduction to the history and present-day reality of child exploitation and supply chain issues, but it also traces the interconnected web of domestic and transnational federal laws and law enforcement efforts launched in response thereto. The Second Edition not only is updated to reflect the latest trends and other development presented by two of the premier experts concerning this constantly-evolving field, but it also contains new chapters examining areas such as special issues in the fight against human trafficking and the raft of landmark anti-trafficking laws that herald a new compliance reality for the globe’s business community. Written from the distinctive perspective of those who have spent their careers in the trenches investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating these intricate, emotional cases, as well as those who are tasked with ensuring that products are free from the taint of child exploitation and force labor, the book is uniquely proscriptive, as well as descriptive, in the sense that it relies on real-world examples to serve up practical advice and reform proposals for those involved at all levels of this challenging area.

Author : Jonathan W. Hak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198889533

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Image-Based Evidence in International Criminal Prosecutions by Jonathan W. Hak Pdf

In this pioneering book, Jonathan W. Hak offers insightful commentary on the authentication and interpretation of image-based evidence, setting out how it can be effectively used in international criminal prosecutions.

Author : Ducksoo Kim,Dan E Orron,Nilesh H Patel,Alik Farber
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Page : 1972 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789385999024

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Vascular Imaging and Intervention by Ducksoo Kim,Dan E Orron,Nilesh H Patel,Alik Farber Pdf

Comprehensive guide to vascular imaging and endovascular interventions. Covers diagnosis and treatment of numerous vascular disorders. Internationally recognised author team.