Formats
Anthologies
99
Audio
310
Catalogues
438
Clothing
23
Editions
31
Ephemera
68
Literary
38
Monographs
191
Posters
298
Video
39
Zines
144

Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#05487

The Concept of Non-Photography by François Laruelle

Date
2011
Publisher
Urbanomic
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
ISBN
978-0-9832169-1-9
Size
155 × 175 × 2 cm
Length
303 
Description

Myriads of negatives tell of the world, speaking among themselves, constituting a vast conversation, filling a photosphere that is located nowhere. But one single photo is enough to express the real that all photographers aspire one day to capture, without ever quite succeeding in doing so. Nevertheless, this real cohabits intimately with negatives, with clichés as embedded in our lives as they are imperceptible. Photographs are the thousand flat facets of an ungraspable identity that only shines – and sometimes very faintly – through something else. What more is there to a photo than a curious and prurient glance? And yet it is also a fascinating secret.

The Concept of Non-Photography develops a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy and art, and introduces the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle’s ‘non-philosophy’.

Des myriades de clichés racontent le monde, parlent entre eux, tissent une vaste conversation, remplissent une photosphère qui n’est située nulle part. Mais une seule photo suffit à exprimer un réel que tous les photographes espèrent un jour saisir sans y parvenir. Et pourtant il est au ras des clichés, vécu autant qu’imperceptible. Les photos sont les mille facettes plates d’une identité insaisissable qui ne brille, et parfois faiblement, que hors d’elle-même. Une photo, ce n’est pas grand-chose en dehors d’un regard interrogateur et concupiscent, et pourtant c’est un secret fascinant.

Le Concept de Non-Photographie développe une pensée nouvelle et rigoureuse de la photo dans sa relation à la science, la philosophie et l’art. Il introduit également au lecteur tous les opérateurs de la ‘non-philosophie’ de Laruelle.

  1. The Concept of Non-Photography by François Laruelle
 

Related Items

  1. Remedies to the absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck
  2. Wiels!
  3. Liz Deschenes, Secession
  4. Society Suckers #12
  5. FiZZZ BZZZZ: PERKOMETRY: Snout No. 3
  6. Guantanamo.
  7. Kim Waldron: The DIY Cookbook
  8. Nic Wilson: A Landscape Photograph in the Land of the Dead
  9. Olaf Nicolai: Faites le Travail Qu’accomplit le Soleil
  10. Relative Specimen
  11. Jim Fletcher and Harry Mathews: Week One
  12. Lettres/Letters
  13. Benjamin Freedman: Observations of Foreign Objects in a Remote Town
  14. The Elevator Rider’s Companion
  15. Arthur Zalewski: Somebody’s Got to Do It
  16. Sloth in my head Vol. 2
  17. Olivier Foulon and Michael Krebber: The Soliloquy of the Broom
  18. Mark von Schlegell: Ickles, Etc.
  19. Mark Connery: Hell Passport #15
  20. Double Bound Economies
  21. Nicolas Hosteing: MATADOR
  22. Colin Snapp: VISTA (Signed Copy)
  23. Sam Lewitt: Fluid Employment
  24. Julia Martin: Wring Your Hands, Sing the End!
  25. Isabelle Cornaro: De l’adresse
  26. Karen Zalamea: They are lost as soon as they are made
  27. Els Vander Meersch: implants
  28. Soner Ön: A Pigeon to The Phoenix
  29. Simon Haenni: Acoco
  30. Anders Edström: Safari
  31. Regina Cornwell and Michael Snow: Snow Seen, The Films and Photographs of Micheal Snow
  32. Sam Falls: Visible Libraries