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On the Verge of Photography: Imaging Beyond Representation

On the Verge of Photography re-evaluates the role of visuality, image, and lens-based media (digital and analogue) from a range of disciplines, practices, and social, cultural and aesthetic contexts. Comprised of fifteen peer-reviewed contributions from international scholars, On the Verge draws on the contributions of philosophy, science, arts education and research within contemporary photography. In so doing, it breaks with traditional analyses, signalling an entirely different approach to the image. Emerging from two international conferences (the first: Beyond Representation, LSBU Apr 2012; the second: On the Verge of Photography BIAD-BCU, May 2012), one international workshop (held at BIAD-BCU, and asking the ‘simple’ question: What is a Photograph?, Nov 2011); and a dedicated peer-reviewed journal publication (Philosophy of Photography, Chicago Univ Press: Vol 3, no. 3), this work was supported by a £31K AHRC collaborative research grant (2012) co-led by Golding (BCU) and Rubinstein (PI-LSBU). Rubinstein & Fisher organised the first conference, Golding organised the second conference, workshop and social platform emerging from it (The AHRC Photography Research Network). World leading researchers selected in this volume included: Susan Schuppli (London), Barbara Bolt (Australia), Elo Mika (Denmark), Yael Eylat-Vassam (Tel Aviv); Igor Vassiliev (Russia). Apart from organising and editing the book Golding contributed the peer-reviewed chapter, “After The Darkroom: Ana-materialism and the Sensuous Fractalities of Speed & Light (or does the image still speak a thousand words?),” and also the peer-reviewed epilogue, “Coda: Learning to See,” (pp. 141-151; 285-86, respectively). Reviews of the work already place this research at the cutting-edge of contemporary photography: “Reading this extraordinary book it becomes clear that so much of what we knew or thought we knew about photography is at one and the same time accurate and obsolete…This book is a must read.” Ariella Azoulay, Literature & Modern Culture, Brown University.