Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Series Editors’ Preface viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. 1 Introduction: On the Scale, Quantity and Measure of Images 1
7. I Scale, Measure, Experience
8. 2 Mass Image, Anthropocene Image, Image Commons 23
9. 3 Beyond Human Measure: Eccentric Metrics in Visual Culture 41
10. 4 Living with the Excessive Scale of Contemporary Photography 61
11. 5 Feeling Photos: Photography, Picture Language and Mood Capture 77
12. 6 Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics 97
13. II Metapictures and Remediations
14. 7 Photography’s Mise en Abyme: Metapictures of Scale in Repurposed Slide Libraries 111
15. 8 The Failed Photographs of Photography: On the Analogue and Slow Photography Movement 140
16. 9 Strangely Unique: Pictorial Aesthetics in the Age of Image Abundance 158
17. III Models, Scans and AI
18. 10 On Seeing Where There’s Nothing to See: Practices of Light beyond Photography 183
19. 11 Planetary Diagrams: Towards an Autographic Theory of Climate Emergency 211
20. 12 Undigital Photography: Image-Making beyond Computation and AI 231
21. Coda: Photography in the Age of Massification 253
22. Names index 289
23. Subject index 293