• Title: Forget Photography
• Author(s) Andrew Dewdney
• Publisher: Goldsmiths Press (October 26, 2021); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 240 pages
• eBook: PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1912685825
• ISBN-13: 978-1912685820
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Book Description

Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates. The central paradox this book explores is that at the moment of photography's replacement by the algorithm and data flow, photographic cultures proliferate as never before.

• Andrew Dewdney is Research Professor and Codirector of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, at the School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University.

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