From The Photograph To The Meta-Image My Practice-Led Search For A New Digital Epistemology
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- q2y2q
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3390/proceedings1090889
- Title of journal
- Proceedings
- Article number
- 889
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- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 9
- ISSN
- 2504-3900
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Fusari’s background as a photographic journalist and researcher shapes his reflections on the meta-image as a condition of new media platforms. In this respect his research draws on his involvement with the British Academy funded research fellowship (Visual Anthropology of Islam, 2009-10) and work on the AHRC funded project Arab World in Transition (commissioned as part of the Emerging Activity from Outcomes of AHRC project 2012-16 – £ 42,000 AH/K000098/1).
This article draws on an analysis of the process of digital imaging to specifically examine the shift from the photograph to the ‘meta-image’ in visual journalism, a term that is proposed for digitally enhanced multi-layered images. It argues that in the context of contemporary International politics, design processes are not merely a question of post-production, but pervade digital photographic practices in both pre-production camera settings as well as intentional post-production practices such as cropping, montage and the further integration of other media, texts and links. In this visual journalism, the journalistic photograph itself has shifted towards images that are technically designed, rather than being captured — they are fabricated technical objects, not mere impressions of reality.
In this respect the research demonstrates that the raw, undesigned photographic image can be purposefully remediated in a digital setting; a process allowing the exploration of the specific issue of truth associated with digital images. The journal article’s conclusion is that a multimedia and multi-layered approach to the digital image offers new and re-conceptualised opportunities to critically engage with issues of the production of truth in visual journalism practice, further underlining the practical relevance of the meta-image for current and prospective practices in the digital context. The article provides the context for presentations and articles on the meta-image, including at a range of International NGO events.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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