family projections
Flusser insisted that photographs project possibilities, rather than “capturing” or “recording” or “reproducing” anything. So all those lovely shots you may have of yourself as a very young child, smiling at the camera–or not —...
Category: photography
Post photography
The resonance of “post-photography” with “post-modernism” can hardly be avoided. There will be an academic conference in Lucerne in November entitled “The Post-photographic Apparatus”. Assuming the term “apparatus” draws, perhaps substantially, on Flusser’s framework,...
What can’t be photographed
The photographs sent back to earth from Mars have a kind of “signature,” something that both acknowledges the colossal technical achievement of the mission and clearly signals its photographic limits. In particular, many of...
Black Box
Flusser used the phrase “black box” to describe at least two very different objects: a camera (in Towards a Philosophy of Photography) and the postal system (in “Letters,” Does Writing Have a Future?). As radically...