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Subject: [AE] LAF 7 NOV | Mikael Pettersson - Negative Images: On
Photography, Causation and Absences
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy)
Wednesday 7th November 2012
16.00 - 18.00 | Senate House, Room G21A
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Dr Mikael Pettersson
"Negative Images: On Photography, Causation and Absences"
Abstract:B Many photographs seem
to be images of privations, lacks and absences. Umbobs The
Mystery of the Street, for example, is primarily a photograph
of shadows, and if shadows are absences of light, this image
is a photograph of absences. In a different way, some
photographs of Manhattanbs skyline, taken after 9/11, would
seem to be photographs of the absence of the Twin Towers. But
the very idea of photographs of absences is paradoxical, or at
least puzzling. Photography is commonly held to be an
essentially causal medium, and it is unclear how, or even if,
absences can be causally efficacious. So can there really be
photographs of absences? In this paper, I investigate various
ways to unravel the puzzle.
The talk will be free and open to all. For more
information please follow this link.
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