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Copy, Archive, Signature : A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida, Jeff Fort, Gerhard Richter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book makes available for the first time in English—and for the first time in its entirety in any language—an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation, the volatility of the authorial subject, and the concept of memory. Derrida offers a penetrating intervention with regard to the distinctive nature of photography vis-à-vis related technologies such as cinema, television, and video. Questioning the all-too-facile divides between so-called old and new media, original and reproduction, analog and digital modes of recording and presenting, he provides stimulating insights into the ways in which we think and speak about the photographic image today. Along the way, the discussion fruitfully interrogates the question of photography in relation to such key concepts as copy, archive, and signature. Gerhard Richter introduces the volume with a critical meditation on the relationship betwe

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Author

Jacques Derrida, Jeff Fort, Gerhard Richter

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804775014

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Photography, Memoir