Chairs: Eric Laurier, Barry Brown and Neil Jenkings
At their outset darkrooms and cutting rooms were imagined to be places of mere mechanical reproduction, over the longer term they have turned out to be central to creative industry, imagination and representation in visual media. These sites and processes of production are an under-examined part of visual sociology, with a number of notable exceptions (e.g. Howie Becker's chapter on Editing in 'Art Worlds', 1982). In this panel we aim to bring together studies of what happens 'post-shooting' in the spaces constituting the studios, dark-rooms, control rooms and photoshops of the world. Editing encompasses a complex of hobbyist, craft and professional practices, yet it is often deleted in accounts of film, home video and photography. Moreover in the last decade these hobbies, crafts and professions have been transformed as technology has both popularised editing practices, and revolutionised amateur and professional techniques - digital media are as likely to be handled on the kitchen table on a laptop as in a professional studio.
We invite papers that explore empirically or theoretically the practices and processes that occur in post-capture production spaces: the editing that produces visual and video documents - film, photos, televisions shows and the like.
We are particularly interested in:
* ethnographic examinations of 'production cultures'
* interactional studies of real-time studio, editing suite and related professional practices
* analysis of workplaces specialising in visual materials
* theoretical examinations of post-production
* historical accounts of the emergence and shifts in photographic, film and video editing worlds
The session will broadly support approaches germane to studying the different routes through which media is assembled, configured and evaluated on the path to different media outlets.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Please send abstracts or completed papers to:
Eric Laurier, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Barry Brown, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Neil Jenkings, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University
Email: eric.laurier@ ed.ac.uk
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