edited by Kamila Kuc, Jonathan Shaw, Michael Wamposzyc, Ross Varney and Joanna Zylinska

Photomediations: An Open Reader is an open, wiki-based part the online project Photomediations: An Open Book, led by Professor Joanna Zylinska. An experiment in open and hybrid publishing – as well as a celebration of the book as a living object – the project arises out of Europeana Space, which is funded by the European Union's ICT Policy Support Programme under GA n° 621037.

Photomediations: An Open Reader features academic, curatorial and mainstream open access texts about the dynamic relationship between photography and other media. The Reader is free for everyone to access. But that's not all: the open wiki format allows different communities of users (lecturers, students, curators, artists, independent learners) to add to, re-edit and re-version the material included in this Reader, after registering on this site.

The Reader also has a 'frozen' version, in the shape of an open access academic textbook which contains a curated selection of essays – some (but not all) of which are listed below. It was published by Open Humanities Press in January 2016.

Contents

Photomediations: An Introduction
Joanna Zylinska

I Photography, Optics and Light

A New Kind of History? The Challenges of Contemporary Histories of Photography
Ya’ara Gil Glazer

Why Burn a Photograph? A Film by Hollis Frampton
Alexander García Düttmann

Astronomical Seeing

Elizabeth A. Kessler

Processing Color in Astronomical Imagery
Kimberly K. Arcand, Megan Watzke, Travis Rector, Zoltan G. Levay, Joseph DePasquale,  Olivia Smarr

Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes
Gordon Wetzstein, Ramesh Raskar and Wolfgang Heidrich


 

II The Image in Motion

Death and Digital Photography
Helen Ennis

Ten Canoes and the Ethnographic Photographs of Donald Thomson: ‘Animate Thought’ and ‘the Light of the World’

Anne Rutherford

It Has Not Been – It Is. The Signaletic Transformation of Photography
Mette Sandbye

The 'Potential Mobilities' of Photography
Debbie Lisle

The Cinematograph as an Agent of History

Kamila Kuc

Charcoal Matter with Memory: Images of Movement, Time and Duration In the Animated Films of William Kentridge

David H. Fleming

A New/Old Ontology of Film
Rafe McGregor

III Hybrid Photomediations

‘The Operative Image’ cluster in The New Everyday: A MediaCommons Project

curated by Ingrid Hoelzl

Image Future

Lev Manovich

The Glitch Moment(um)

Rosa Menkman

Critical Glitches and Glitch Art

Michael Betancourt

Noise at the Interface
Andrew Prior

NewFotoScapes
Jonathan Shaw

IV The Networked Image

Benjamin, BitTorrent, Bootlegs: Auratic Piracy Cultures?
Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz

The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory and Kinaesthetic Sociability
Paul Frosh

The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self Portrait

Brooke Wendt

It's About the Sharing: Instagram's Recursive Aura (Vernacular Photography in the Age of Google Image Search)
Timothy Walsh

Interview with Jon Rafman

Incite

The Horrors of Visuality
Rob Coley