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Et Cetera Photobooks? Reflections on Conceptual Documentary Photography as Visual Enumeration

Using three photobooks by Ricardo Cases, Allison Stewart, and Stephen Gill, I explore the question of whether visual lists can exist. I investigate what operations must be involved in conceptualizing a semantically open and polysemous artifact like photography as a discrete enumeration and then consider which aesthetic practices might be associated with it. My thesis is that, through reductionist and abstracting practices, enumerative photography has found a way to rethink the problem of figural representation in documentary photography. As a serial work, the Conceptual Documentary photobook (CDp) can be both politically and conceptually coherent in emphasizing the interpretive gaps between individual images and thus creating a receptive autonomy, which is an important representational goal in approaches to Postdocumentary Art.

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Date Issued:
01.01.2022
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hbz:465-20220324-131453-4
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-76970-3_13
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English
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Fotografie
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E-Publications
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770 Photography & photographs
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Scientific institutes, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
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Schürmann, A.: Et Cetera Photobooks? Reflections on Conceptual Documentary Photography as Visual Enumeration. In: Barton, R.A., Böckling, J., Link, S., Rüggemeier, A. (eds) Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, S. 275-300 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76970-3_13

First Online: 01 January 2022

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