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Film, Photography and the French Revolution as 'history sign'.
The lecture will focus on a semantic detail in the history of photography: In French the shutter in the camera is called guillotine – like the decapitation machine that was introduced during the French revolution in order to make death penalty less painful, - as a modern machine for human killing. In other languages this semantic is present with the idea of the camera shot. The complex temporality that is involved here between the moment of stasis in taking a photo and its duration as image that stores the shot object in an archive, as collection of recollection is of specific interest when it comes to the media evolution from photo to film, where the metaphors of shooting and death are equally but differently entailed. The lecture will navigate thru different materials of photography and film in order to maintain the thesis that the historical change in the idea of sovereignty that came with the French (and others) revolution made an imprint on the early mass medium of photography: In the long run everybody becomes a shooter, a sovereign of its own realm of pictorial representation. Insofar I will read the semantic of the guillotine as political semantic that reflects the political changes in sovereignty.
Publisert 3. mars 2017 14:33
- Sist endret 3. mars 2017 14:33