摘要：In this article, we examine the epistemology of the camera today. In order to answer thisquestion, we concentrate on three social and technological forms: the camera obscura, thephotographic camera, and the digital camera.On the one hand, the camera extends our human sensibilities and helps us to obtainknowledge of the world. On the other hand, it works as a device for delusion, bodily visionand spectacle. Historically, these two functions are meshed together in complicated waysand this establishes the paradoxical epistemology of the camera.We argue that, even if contemporary debates about the truthfulness of the photographicimage have persistently been tied to the digitisation of the photographic process, the veryorigin of these debates actually lies in the camera itself and its contradictory epistemology.The camera has worked, and still works, as an apparatus that relentlessly produces irresolvableambiguity, aporia, between true knowledge and illusory vision.
关键词：camera; camera obscura; epistemology; photography; digital photography; visual;culture
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