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Scalability and its Limits in Photography and (Digital) Sculpture
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English
Published/Copyright:
2026
About this book
This anthology investigates scaling practices as a cultural technique, emphasizing measuring, scanning, transforming, and projecting objects in time and space. It explores the complex intersections between two- and three-dimensionality from the perspectives of art history, visual studies, and media studies. Special attention is paid to photography and (digital) sculpture, two increasingly intertwined fields. The concept of merging dimensions is now cutting-edge in both contemporary digitized photography and digital sculpture. The anthology also delves into the limits of scalability, the aesthetics of disruption, and the glitches that can occur when pushing these boundaries.
Author / Editor information
Buket Altinoba, University of Munich, Maria Männig, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Ursula Ströbele, Braunschweig University of Art
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Scalability
10 - I. The (Physical) Object: Challenging Static Conceptions of Size and Scale
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Drifting Images
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The Scale of Memory—the Size of Memorials
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Roleplay/Scaleplay—The Eameses’ Visual Transformations of Reality
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All Architects Model
80 - II. The Sculptural versus the Photographic
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Visual Essay
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Monumental Images
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Monuments and Miniatures in the Photogrammetric Imagination
128 - III. The Digital Shift: Sculpture in a Virtual Context. The Sculptural and the Virtual
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Monuments in Public Spaces, their Perception, and Reproduction in 2 and 3D
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Cells, Constellations, Families of Forms
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Scaling the Future?
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Credits
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 10, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111374888
Paperback published on:
December 29, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783111374871
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
256
Coloured Illustrations:
87
Keywords for this book
art; 20th century; 21st century; sculpture; photography; scale; measure; technology
Audience(s) for this book
scholars in art history, Media Studies
Creative Commons
BY 4.0
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