Ebook: Photography, trace, and trauma

Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer - similar to what happens when a traumatic event bypasses consciousness and lodges deeply in the unconscious mind. This book takes a groundbreaking look at photographic art and works in other media that explore this important analogy.;Exposure -- Indexicality: a trauma of signification -- Analogue: on Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean -- Rubbing, casting, making strange -- Index, diagram, graphic trace -- The "unrepresentable" -- Invisible traces: postscript on Thomas Demand.