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Photographic Non-Self

Photographic Non-Self

Tim Paul Stephens
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781668453377|ISBN10: 1668453371|EISBN13: 9781668453384
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch022
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Stephens, Tim Paul. "Photographic Non-Self." Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography, edited by Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham, et al., IGI Global, 2023, pp. 485-509. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch022

APA

Stephens, T. P. (2023). Photographic Non-Self. In M. Ingham, N. Milic, V. Kantas, S. Andersdotter, & P. Lowe (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography (pp. 485-509). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch022

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Stephens, Tim Paul. "Photographic Non-Self." In Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography, edited by Mark Bruce Nigel Ingham, et al., 485-509. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7.ch022

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Abstract

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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