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Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine, Paperback / softback Book

Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine.

The Turin Shroud inspires a discussion on photography's frequently acclaimed 'ontological privilege', which has conditioned an understanding of photography as a sui generis breed of images wherein pictorial representation is coextensive with human vision.

This is then contrasted with a discussion of the universal Turing machine, which integrates photography into a framework of media philosophy and algorithmic art.

Here, photography becomes more than just the present-day sum of its depiction traditions, devices and dissemination networks.

Rather, it is archetypical of multiple systems of abstraction and classification, and various other symbolic processes of transformation.

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