An example of “nonhuman” photography that you have either experienced or read about
Reading Zylinska’s “Postphotography” excerpt, the first project that comes to mind for me is Deep Dream. I’m not sure how well it fits into the “photography” category, but the method of creating these images mirrors Zylinska’s accounts of “algorithmic and computational” means of capture.
Respond to Joanna Zylinska’s observation that, “Photography based on algorithms, computers, and networks merely intensifies this condition, while also opening up some new questions and new possibilities.
Zylinska says this when discussing the recent “reconceptualization of photography in algorithmic and computational terms,” arguing that photography has always, in a sense, arisen through human-nonhuman collaboration. She seems to argue that this modern intent is as close as it has ever been to its origins in “fossils, analog snapshots, and liar-produced photomaps.” I would agree that both this modern sort of “algorithmic photography” and its analog counterparts are methods of experimental (yet literal) capture, aimed at taking an accurate snapshot of what’s “out there.”
It’s just that this time around, what’s “out there” can be less subjective than ever before, because we can capture things that completely evade human perception. “Nonhuman photography can allow us to unsee ourselves from our parochial human-centered anchoring, and encourage a different vision of both ourselves and what we call the world.” From a cognitive science standpoint, that’s incredibly satisfying to me. I hope to do more work that challenges our species’ limited view of the world.