Corresponding Associations: the Poetics and Limits of Photography as Dialogue. (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Palmer, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Photography & culture. Volume 12:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 321
• Page End: 335
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: dialogue -- visual exchange -- art photography -- social media photography -- authorship; Photography -- Periodicals; Photography, Artistic -- Periodicals; 770.9
• DOI: 10.1080/17514517.2019.1641281
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-4525

Abstract

Abstract: Over the past decade, an increasing number of artists have engaged in photographic projects involving image-based dialogue. These invariably take the form of back-and-forth exchanges of photographs, animated over extended periods of time and often across continents. The immediate context for these dialogues is networked photography – photo-messaging and social media – that also enables people to share photographs in a conversational manner. This article explores a variety of artist-led photographic exchange and correspondence projects and proposes that such experiments reveal a number of distinctive qualities about photographs taken in response to an image made by another, and in anticipation of a visual response. The article concludes by probing the parameters and limits of photo-dialogues for both artists and viewers.