Beta Exercise
Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique talent and voice in the world of avant-garde contemporary photography. The opening...
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| description | Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique talent and voice in the world of avant-garde contemporary photography. The opening essay “Life Is a Gift" meditates on the transformation of human life into an exchangeable commodity and the abstraction that entails. “Essay 01" develops Kanemura’s idea of photographic “technique" in an era when such techniques have become accessible to all, radically undermining the importance of human subjectivity in the process of capturing the photographic image: “We can say that modern technology constitutes photographic technique." Instead, Kanemura argues, extra-technical elements such as concept and vision will have to compensate for the expression of individuality that technique is no longer able to convey. Taking cues from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the essay “Dead-Stick Landing" develops Kanemura’s theory of the moving image as mechanical system, solely governed by an “on-off switch," while “Essay 02" develops these ideas into a consideration of cinematic time and the experience of boredom in cinema as the result of a truthful “loyalty" expressed to machines, and not to stories. The essays are accompanied by an extensive two-part interview with Italian photographer Marco Mazzi, touching upon topics ranging from the technical aspects of Kanemura’s equipment, the concept of non-editing, and the destruction of the frame to the similarity between Mao’s dialectics and the camera, the presence of the human figure as trace, and the politics of photographing Tokyo. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1164612024-03-23T21:37:16Z Beta Exercise Gerven Oei, van Gerven Oei, van Art & Art History Asian Studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique talent and voice in the world of avant-garde contemporary photography. The opening essay “Life Is a Gift" meditates on the transformation of human life into an exchangeable commodity and the abstraction that entails. “Essay 01" develops Kanemura’s idea of photographic “technique" in an era when such techniques have become accessible to all, radically undermining the importance of human subjectivity in the process of capturing the photographic image: “We can say that modern technology constitutes photographic technique." Instead, Kanemura argues, extra-technical elements such as concept and vision will have to compensate for the expression of individuality that technique is no longer able to convey. Taking cues from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the essay “Dead-Stick Landing" develops Kanemura’s theory of the moving image as mechanical system, solely governed by an “on-off switch," while “Essay 02" develops these ideas into a consideration of cinematic time and the experience of boredom in cinema as the result of a truthful “loyalty" expressed to machines, and not to stories. The essays are accompanied by an extensive two-part interview with Italian photographer Marco Mazzi, touching upon topics ranging from the technical aspects of Kanemura’s equipment, the concept of non-editing, and the destruction of the frame to the similarity between Mao’s dialectics and the camera, the presence of the human figure as trace, and the politics of photographing Tokyo. 2023-10-05T11:05:08Z 2023-10-05T11:05:08Z 2019 book ONIX_20231005_9781947447783_2167 9781947447783 9781947447776 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116461 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2353790 Punctum Books 10.2307/jj.2353790 10.2307/jj.2353790 9528137b-bd0f-4bee-8262-f1c8096922a3 9781947447783 9781947447776 open access |
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