Photographie d'art et culture visuelle contemporaines : vers des pratiques photographiques technologiques
This thesis explores the moving, mobile and fluid nature of contemporary photography by clarifying current uses and values of photographic practices in artistic and socio-cultural circles. We posit the interpenetration of artistic and amateur photography in a contemporary regime by way of the concept of technology (tekhnè) as deployed in the writings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. This analysis builds on works by modern (Yves Klein, Shunk/Kender) and contemporary artists (Taryn Simon, Penelope Umbrico, Li Wei, Wendy McMurdo), as well as different types of professional and non-professional practices (photojournalism, official documentation, images taken on blogs or social media). A comparative study of these images will allow us to reflect on recent photography in continuity with imaging practices of the 19th and 20th centuries, defining an atopic relationship to space and a metamodern relationship to time.
art contemporain photography studies contemporary art visual culture digital culture philosophy of technology atopia metamodernism