iRevolution (eng)

What is mobile photography? How does it mark the processes of communication and transform the forms and structures of professional photography?

This book is a reflection on the use of the mobile phone as a filming tool, its potential, its limits, its design and authorial use, its impact on the visual language and on the mechanisms of the market. It is an attempt to write a history of the present, thinking about some questions that mark contemporary photography: can mobile photography be considered a new language, due to the way it influences both the aesthetics of vision and the forms of communication? Does the technical awareness behind the production of an image by a professional make a difference compared to the simple gesture of pressing a button on a smartphone? In a world where everyone, at any time, can record any event with their phone, what role remains for the professional photographer?

iRevolution opens a dialogue between authoritative points of view — curators, theorists and photoeditors — and gives voice to professionals who have chosen to embrace the challenge of a new tool in relation to contemporary documentation. Because, faced with the fragmentation of the collective gaze into billions of visual testimonies produced, shared and forgotten every day, trying to draw a map can be useful, if not to find the route, at least to understand where we have arrived.

«This is the only research, up to now, that synthesizes the knowledge and reflections that have at the center the interests and changes of the contemporary photographer.» — Zygmunt Bauman