Photographic Non-Self

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Author(s): Tim Paul Stephens (University of the Arts London, UK)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 25
Source title: Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Nela Milic (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Vasileios Kantas (University of West Attica, Greece), Sara Andersdotter (University for the Creative Arts, Sweden)and Paul Lowe (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch022

Keywords: Art and Design / Computer Graphics & Art / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Non-self has unsurprisingly been featured very little in explanatory material of-object-based contemporary art history. Buddhist nonself has contributed to subjectivity research, but non-self in photography is, perhaps appropriately, absent. This chapter will explore how the experience of non-self might differ from but overlap with emptiness in the ‘history of art' specifically ‘photography theory and practice.' The author's research in experiential non-self wrestles with the complexities of non-representation when articulating embodied affect, of childhood racial discrimination, for instance. Yet, embodied autobiographical non-self is an impossible category. This is a subjugated knowledge that disrupts self-hood, undermines historical artefacts -leaving us with no birth of photography- and ruptures socio-cultural identity. Can a contemporary secular Buddhist non-self function as liberatory? Photographic non-self might render ‘writing on/and photography' disastrous, when indelibly marked by the failures of representation.

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