Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This paper considers the photographic act as an affective and affirmative encounter--a reflexive, embodied, and relational community engagement that may produce a rupture in our habitual modes of thinking. The author uses the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the nomadic weapon to consider how the camera may become an affective trigger for self-reflexivity, catalyzing the potential of nomadic thinking in a participatory frame. By transposing uses of photography as visual research method across cultural geography, visual anthropology, sociology, and arts-based educational research, the author discusses shifts in the function of photography from a practice emphasizing image production to an embodied and performative approach to community engagement. Using a photographic encounter with a local taco stand as an example, the piece considers the pedagogical potential of engaging with unfamiliar spaces as a participatory and reflexive photographic process.
Repository Citation
Coats, Cala, "Thinking through the Photographic Encounter: Engaging with the Camera as Nomadic Weapon" (2014). Faculty Publications. 5.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/art/5
Comments
Coats, C. (2014). Thinking through the photographic encounter: Engaging with the camera as nomadic weapon. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 15(9).