Daniel Smyth
Postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Cornell University, specializing in the philosophical analysis of photography and visual representation.
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Aug 18, 2016 • 46min
Episode 86: Daniel Smyth discusses photographs and their vicissitudes
Daniel Smyth, a philosophy postdoc at Cornell who studies photography and visual representation, joins to explore why photos feel like evidence. He contrasts detection versus depiction, explains slit 'photo finish' cameras, and traces photographic conventions from optics to Hubble colorization. Short, thought-provoking takes on how background knowledge and cultural fluency shape what images mean.
