not enough hours in the day
Prof. Jaques Rancière points out that in the notion of Photography or the Photographic, “the idea of the medium clearly exceeds that of the apparatus”. In other words what we think of as ‘photographic’ exceeds any narrow idea of photography as defined by the use of any particular apparatus, such as a camera and the recording of the image on paper or glass. In effect what we can identify as “photographic” can manifest in almost any number of ways, as prints or projections, as digital images, as reflections, as images produced in a Camera Obscura, as imprints created by light and radiation, as data from satellites and telescopes, as scans using various wavelengths of light, as code or even sound – so many ways in fact that materially they may have very little in common. The idea of ‘the photographic’ has been around for much longer than the camera.