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Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs
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Phillips, Dawn M.. (2009) Fixing the image : re-thinking the 'mind-independence' of photographs. Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics , Vol.6 (No.2).
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Abstract
We are told by philosophers that photographs are a distinct category of image because the photographic process is mind-independent. Furthermore, that the experience of viewing a photograph has a special status, justified by a viewer’s knowledge that the photographic process is mind-independent. Versions of these ideas are central to discussions of photography in both the philosophy of art and epistemology and have far-reaching implications for science, forensics and documentary journalism. [...]
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics T Technology > TR Photography |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Photography, Artistic, Photography -- Philosophy, Agent (Philosophy) |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics |
| Publisher: | British Society of Aesthetics |
| Date: | August 2009 |
| Volume: | Vol.6 |
| Number: | No.2 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/36605 |
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