Photographic Image in Digital Culture

<p>This new edition of <i>The Photographic Image in Digital Culture</i> explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. </p><p>Through ten especially commissioned essays by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies a range of key topics are discussed including: the meaning of software in the production of photograph; the nature of networked photographs; the screen as the site of photographic display; the simulation of photography in the videogame; photography ubiquitous computing and technologies of ambient intelligence; developments in vernacular photography and social media; the photograph and the digital archive; the curation and exhibition of the networked photograph; the dominance of the image bank in commercial and advertising photography; the complexities of citizen photojournalism.</p><p>A recurring theme addressed throughout is the nature of ‘photography after photography’ and the paradoxical nature of the medium in the 21st century; a time when the traditional technology of photography has become defunct while there is more ‘photography’ than ever. </p><p>This is an ideal book for students studying photography and digital media.</p>