Digital Non-photograph and Street Practices in Egypt: The Aesthetic of Chance | ||
المجلة المصرية لبحوث الأعلام | ||
Article 13, Volume 2017, Issue 59, April 2017, Pages 1-36 PDF (1.67 M) | ||
Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
DOI: 10.21608/ejsc.2017.88565 | ||
Author | ||
Yasser Abu Elmakarem Abdelaziz Abdelrahim | ||
Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Faculty of Arts, Minia University | ||
Abstract | ||
Photography is considered a medium that reflects reality according to the point of view of the shooter, and constructs it through representation. Shooters of photograph attempt to follow rules that make a good picture. However, this paper claims that use of camera phone has led to the rise of new mode of picturing; principally digital non-photography. The paper proposes that digital non-photographs, which are posted on a Facebook account, are paradigmatic reflections of street practices, and imitations of what any spectator would see in the streets of Egypt everyday. Paradoxically, although non-photographs of streets in Egypt are accidental, and echo discursive and fragment visual replications of rituals and practices, they reflect aesthetic values, and unwittingly signify an aesthetic of chance | ||
Keywords | ||
camera phone; non-photograph; semiotics; design; aesthetic; street | ||
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