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Of ,"""I tic 111= =ays speak, Ofphotcgraphy in 1M .flesh - bul1U)llh.Jksh cif 1M pholographer. Myriads ofnegatives teU ofthe world, speaking in cliches among themselves, constiJuting a lJast conversation,jilling a plwtosphue thai is located ruJUJhue. But one ringle photo
is enough to ex~ a real thai ali pholOgraphnl aspirr: one day to capture, wiJlwut aJeT quiJe succeeding in doing so. Even so, this rea/lingers on lhe negatives' surface, at once /Wed and imp=eptible. Photographs"", 1M l/wwand flal facets cif an ungraspable identily Ihat only shines - and at timesJaintly - through something else. What more is llu:re to a photo Ihan a curiow and prurient glance? And yet il is also afascinating secret.
7he Concepl cifNon·Photography develops a rigorous new chin king of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy and an, and introduoo; the reader [0 all of the key concepts of LarueUe's 'non-philosophy.' FRANC;:OIS LARUELLE, professor emeritus at the
University of Paris West Nanrerre La Defence, is the founder of 'non-philosophy' and the au tho r of around cwemy works, includ ing Une biographie de l'homme ordinaire, Principes de La non-philosophie, Christfutur: Une teron d'hbisie, and Philosophie non-standard_ An introductory collection of his essays,
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LA RU ELLE
The Concept of Non -Photo gra phy 'Translated By ROBI N M AC KAY
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Preface
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' ¥hat is Seen Tn a Photo? Text C> the author
1M; Philosoph~f as Selr'Po nn it of th~ Photographer I; T0W3rdS an Abstract or
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Non- Figur.uh"C Theory of PhO(ography 7; The Photographic Staner and Vision. for= I I ; Unh"Crsal Photograph.ic Fiction 15
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A Science of Pho tography The Continent of flat Thoughts 29; A Science of Photography 38; What Un a Photo Do?: Th~ fdcntity·Pboto 43; The Spontaneous Philosoph.y of Photography 46; lhc Pholographic Mode o r Existenee 49; The Bcing- PholO of the Photo 56; Pholographic Realism 60; Probl~1Illi o f ," 'ethod: An and .-\rt Theory. Invention and Discovery fi9; On the PhOlO as \ rtsual Algorithm 75; On Photogr\PHY
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This problem is resolve d, it seems - in implici t, non· themat ic manne r - by the introdu ction of the new concep t of irregularityjorce as force