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Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography
Monograph:
2021, Leiden University Press, Leiden
"In this lively
and highly original book, Ali Shobeiri documents the many ways in which
photography is all about place. Offering acute observations on everything from
the photographer to the photographic image, and from the camera to the
spectator, Shobeiri sets forth all the ways, major and minor, in which
photography is (in his words) ‘comprised of places.’ Proceeding from the basic
premise that places are not just locations or sites but are vibrant ways of
being in space and time, he demonstrates that photography presents to us the
many transmogrifications of places as they are perceived, remembered, and
transformed in their ‘processual, omnilocal, mutating, and lived
manifestations.’ Lucidly written, this breakthrough book allows us to see that
the scope and import of photography is far more extensive than we have ever
imagined – and that place, the central thread of this captivating and
convincing text, has been given new life through photography. The result is
nothing short of the creation of a new and unique field of inquiry: the
geophilosophy of photography."
Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University
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Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University
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