{"id":3864,"date":"2020-07-14T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:43:28","slug":"claire-anscomb-on-photography-for-aesthetic-perception-and-cognition-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/07\/14\/claire-anscomb-on-photography-for-aesthetic-perception-and-cognition-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Anscomb on photography for Aesthetic Perception and Cognition Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claireanscomb.com\/\">Dr Claire Anscomb<\/a>, who recently completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/100\/history-and-philosophy-of-art\">PhD in History and Philosophy of Art<\/a>, has written a piece for Uppsala University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/\">Aesthetic Perception and Cognition Project<\/a> entitled &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/ideas\/photographic-phenomenology\/\">Photographic Phenomenology in the Digital Age<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The essay is part of the project&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/events\/summer2020\/\">A Beautiful Summer<\/a>&#8216; series. Throughout July and August, invited contributors submit short essays which form the starting point for reflection and debate in a series of weekly online discussion seminars on central topics in philosophical aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>Claire&#8217;s piece, due to be discussed on Wednesday 15 July 2020 at 3pm BST, explores digitally manipulated photographs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Post-photographic theorists feared that the epistemic standing of photography would wane with the advent of digital post-processing (Mitchell 1998; Richin 2010; Savedoff 2008)&#8217;, Claire writes. &#8216;Evidence suggests however, that despite the knowledge that digital photographs can be easily and convincingly manipulated (although not always \u2013 just search &#8216;Photoshop fails;), viewers continue to subsume the contents of photographs as veridical&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The full piece can be read on the Aesthetic Perception and Cognition project&#8217;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/ideas\/photographic-phenomenology\/\">https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/ideas\/photographic-phenomenology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The registration link for the online discussion of Claire&#8217;s essay can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/events\/summer2020\/\">https:\/\/aestheticperceptioncognition.se\/events\/summer2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Claire Anscomb, who recently completed a PhD in History and Philosophy of Art, has written a piece for Uppsala University&#8217;s Aesthetic Perception and Cognition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/07\/14\/claire-anscomb-on-photography-for-aesthetic-perception-and-cognition-project\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,25563,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}