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Digital Non-photograph and Street Practices in Egypt: The Aesthetic of Chance

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Photography is considered a medium that reflects reality according to the point of view of the shooter, and constructs it through representation. Shooters of photograph attempt to follow rules that make a good picture. However, this paper claims that use of camera phone has led to the rise of new mode of picturing; principally digital non-photography. The paper proposes that digital non-photographs, which are posted on a Facebook account, are paradigmatic reflections of street practices, and imitations of what any spectator would see in the streets of Egypt everyday. Paradoxically, although non-photographs of streets in Egypt are accidental, and echo discursive and fragment visual replications of rituals and practices, they reflect aesthetic values, and unwittingly signify an aesthetic of chance

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10.21608/ejsc.2017.88565

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camera phone, non-photograph, semiotics, design, Aesthetic, Street

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Yasser Abu Elmakarem Abdelaziz

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Abdelrahim

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Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Faculty of Arts, Minia University

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2017

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59

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13274

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2017-04-01

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2020-05-11

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2017-04-01

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1

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36

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1110-5836

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2682-4647

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المجلة المصرية لبحوث الأعلام

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22 Jan 2023