Digital Photography and Everyday Life

Edgar Gómez Cruz is a Vice-Chancellor Research　Fellow at RMIT, Melbourne. He has　published widely on a number of topics relating to digital culture, ethnography, and photography. His recent publications include the book From Kodak Culture to Networked Image: An Ethnography of Digital Photography Practices　(2012).　Current research investigates screen cultures and creative practices, which is funded through RCUK and Vice Chancellor research grants.　Asko Lehmuskallio is Chair of the ECREA TWG Visual Culture and founding member of the Nordic Network for Digital Visuality. As researcher at Universities of Tampere and Siegen, he specialises in visual culture, mediated human action and networked cameras. Recent books include Pictorial Practices in a "Cam Era": Studying non-professional camera use (2012) and #snapshot: Cameras amongst us (co-ed, 2014).

"This is an outstanding collection of essays which invites a radical rethinking of photography. Each chapter dismantles conventional understandings of photography by examining in detail a specific assemblage of social practice, camera technology and light-generated image. What photography is, what it does and what it might do is thus rendered radically open, and photography is once more made as remarkable, emergent and diverse as it was a century and a half ago. Essential reading for anyone interested in photography and visual culture."Gillian Rose, Professor of Cultural Geography, The Open University, and Author of Visual Methodologies"This exciting and multifaceted book casts new light on the practice of photography. Highlighting the various processes of communication, networking and human-nonhuman relationality in different parts of the world, it shows the photographic medium as literally teeming with life. This is a must-read not just for scholars and students of photography but for anyone who reads the news, uses social media, moves from place to place or owns a camera phone!"Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Curator of Photomediations Machine

• ForewordRichard ChalfenWhy Material Visual Practices?Asko Lehmuskallio and Edgar Gómez CruzPart I: VARIANCE IN USE IN EVERYDAY PHOTOGRAPHY1."I’m a picture girl!" Mobile photography in TanzaniaPaula Uimonen 2."Today I dressed like this": selling clothes and playing for celebrity. Self-representation and consumption on FacebookSara Pargana Mota 3. Amplification and Heterogeneity: Seniors and Digital Photographic PracticesMaria Schreiber 4. Illness, death and grief: the daily experience of viewing and sharing digital imagesMontse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo 5. The Boston Marathon bombing investigation as an example of networked journalism and power of big data analyticsAnssi Männistö 6. Variance in Everyday PhotographyKarin Becker Part II: CAMERAS, CONNECTIVITY AND TRANSFORMED LOCALITIES7. Photographs of Place in Phonespace. Camera Phones as a Location-Aware Mobile TechnologyMikko Villi 8. (Digital) Photography, Experience and Space in Transnational Families. A Case Study of Spanish-Irish Families living in IrelandPatricia Prieto Blanco 9. Visual politics and material semiotics: The digital camera’s translation of political protestRune Saugmann Andersen 10. Linked Photography: A praxeological analysis of augemented reality navigation in the early twentieth centuryTristan Thielmann 11. Photographic Places and Digital Wayfaring: conceptualizing relationships between cameras, connectivities and transformed localitiesSarah Pink Part III: CAMERA AS THE EXTENSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER 12. Exploring everyday photographic routines through the habit of NoticingEve Forrest 13. "Analogization": reflections on life-logging cameras, action cams and images’ changing meaning in a digital landscapePaolo Favero 14. Photo-genic assemblages: Photography as a connective interfaceEdgar Gómez Cruz 15. The camera as a sensor among many: The visualization of everyday digital photography as simulative, heuristic and layered picturesAsko Lehmuskallio 16. Is the camera an extension of the Photographer?Martin Lister Outlook: Photographic Wayfaring, Now and to ComeNancy Van House