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InDesign als Methode? Wahrnehmungstheoretische Überlegungen zu analogen und digitalen Displaykulturen der Fotografie

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The relevance of photographic installation views for contemporary art has been examined several times since the 1960s. As a future reference and self-historization, the installation shot became an act of spatial staging, which photography admittedly folded into the surface and gave the exhibition space only walls. Here I see the reference to the photobook as a display: while the installation photo accentuates the wall as a frame, as a background, in the photobook it is the white space of the page, which is accepted equally as a display: As a surface that can be played on variably in height as well as in width and that tends to be thought of infinitely. The conditions of the cube are projected onto the double page in the book, which now represents the new frame, the new wall. The fact that this wall is rasterized in many layout templates and that the rectangles placed on it, and consisting only of rectangles, have to bend to this raster has – even as an objection – an influence on the image evidence and the sequence associated with it. Here, too, a multimedia transformation is taking place that has been able to digitally sharpen its analog roots: InDesign and comperable softwares makes it possible to make the white space of the page completely flexible and variable. With the help of photographers Susanne Brügger, Volker Heinze and Roe Ethridge, the contribution will show how the book is digitally challenged as a cultural device in the photobook, before and after digital layout programs such as InDesign.

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Schürmann, Anja: InDesign als Methode? Wahrnehmungstheoretische Überlegungen zu analogen und digitalen Displaykulturen der Fotografie. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 12 (2020), Nr. 1, S. 53-66.10.25969/mediarep/13656
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