Photography Off the Scale is a long-awaited reader, made in collaboration with media archaeologist Jussi Parikka and photography theorist Tomáš Dvořák, leading the very active department of theory of photography at world-renowned film academy FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. The reader is an outcome of the international conference organized in winter 2018 at FAMU Prague, bringing up a selection of its papers by many familiar names—to name a few: Sean Cubitt, Andrew Fisher, Annebella Pollen, Joanna Zylinska and Geoffrey Batchen. The book is structured in three major sections: Scale, Measure, Experience, followed by Metapictures and Remediations, and finally, Models, Scans and AI. The opening essay by Sean Cubitt defines excess in scale by introducing us to the “mass image” theme, an image agglomerate constructing new databases. Such an image does not have a purpose of representation; its meaning is in monitoring human behavior....

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