Introduzione

Abstract

This issue critically revisits the notion of the postphotographic, challenging narratives of rupture that frame it as a historical “after” of photography. Instead, it approaches the postphotographic as a genealogical and epistemic condition rooted in the long durée of the photographic and its media transformations. Bringing together historical, theoretical, and analytical perspectives, the volume examines images as operational dispositifs that produce knowledge, generate data, and shape regimes of evidence. Particular attention is given to digital and algorithmic technologies, which intensify and reconfigure long-standing tensions between representation and construction, vision and computation, body and apparatus. The postphotographic thus emerges as an expanded and stratified field in which images actively participate in shaping contemporary forms of experience, perception, and reality.