Framing Uncertainty by Markus Rautzenberg

Author:Markus Rautzenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137595218
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Noise, however, is not simply an accident or ‘exception’ to this immediacy. On the contrary, it is most likely the case that the ‘accident’, the ‘noise’, is actually the rule and condition of possibility of media, and thus cannot simply be brushed to the margins of media history.11 Peter Geimer shows how the genesis of photography is precisely indebted to those various accidents and coincidences related to photochemical processes in the development of negatives. After having analysed a particularly ‘neat’ exemplar of one such photochemical accident,12 he resumes:This last example clarifies what happens when the materiality of photography haunts the representation of the world. The image is divided into two parts—on the right side, Bernini’s colonnades of St Peter in Rome; on the left side, the meaningless work of photochemistry. In the heat of the dry press, the referent melts. Looking at photographs like these, photographers would experience what Martin Heidegger calls ‘the modes of conspicuousness, obtrusiveness, and obstinacy’. These modes appear when a thing loses its readiness-to-hand, when it is missing, becomes inoperable, or disrupts the smooth flow of our actions. When we discover its unusability, the tool becomes conspicuous.

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