Photography and the Optical Unconscious
Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the author of
Sharon Sliwinski is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author of
Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the author of
Sharon Sliwinski is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author of
In this interview with Elisabeth Lebovici, Zoe Leonard explains how her camerae obscurae explore photographic seeing. The camerae obscurae provide a way to go back to the beginning of photography, and to expand the ways in which one can experience, understand, and see photography. For Leonard these considerations are both psychological and political, and she proposes that the space of the camera obscura is related to the unconscious.
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