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@article{ART002243735},
author={Pyung-jong Park},
title={Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2017},
volume={51},
pages={3-30},
doi={10.17527/JASA.51.0.01}

TY - JOUR
AU - Pyung-jong Park
TI - Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2017
VL - 51
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 3
EP - 30
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This study aims to examine the main issues of photography regarding digital technology. If the photography in the analog era depends on the concept of ‘document’, ‘record’, ‘reel’, ‘trace’, etc., the photo in the digital era is explained by the concept of ‘simulacrum’, ‘fiction’, ‘virtuality’, etc. We know that these concepts are incompatibles. So, the photograph don't have the classic position of trace of reel in the digital era so-called ‘post-photography’. Accordingly, main questions of theory of photography require a modification. The core is the theory of index that led the discussion about photography since 1980'. This theory was, in fact, predominant in the analog ara, but has a apparent limit. There is two viewpoints which admit this limit : the one accept partially the theory of index. According to this, digital photo is not different, ‘intrinsically’, from analog photo. The other that admit a fundamental difference of both sides call for revision of index paradigm. In principle, analog is continuous(resemblance), digital is discontinuous(difference). But, resemblance and difference are, ultimately, not sameness. That is inherent quality of all photographic image(analog, digital). The theory of index had a compulsive impulse to determine the specificity of photography. But, even if a photograph has some characteristic of index, it can not be identified to index. Rather it has various characteristic of image. Thus simulacrum of post-photography is not originally new. Therefore, we can suggest, according to the thought of Bazin, as follows : if the painting is liberated from compulsion of realism by the invention of photography, the photography is liberated from compulsion of index by digital technology.
KW - André Bazin;index;Philippe Dubois;Roland Barthes;Rosalind Krauss;simulacrum;trace
DO - 10.17527/JASA.51.0.01
ER -

Pyung-jong Park. (2017). Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 51, 3-30.

Pyung-jong Park. 2017, "Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.51, pp.3-30. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.51.0.01

Pyung-jong Park "Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 51 pp.3-30 (2017) : 3.

Pyung-jong Park. Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography. 2017; 51 3-30. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.51.0.01

Pyung-jong Park. "Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 51(2017) : 3-30.doi: 10.17527/JASA.51.0.01

Pyung-jong Park. Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 51, 3-30. doi: 10.17527/JASA.51.0.01

Pyung-jong Park. Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2017; 51 3-30. doi: 10.17527/JASA.51.0.01

Pyung-jong Park. Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography. 2017; 51 3-30. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.51.0.01

Pyung-jong Park. "Index Paradigm and Modification Theory in Post-photography" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 51(2017) : 3-30.doi: 10.17527/JASA.51.0.01