Фотографическое by Rosalind E. Krauss

A concise set of theoretical essays that rethinks the photographic as a system of operations rather than a simple record, grounding it in indexicality, seriality, and the logic of the archive. Tracing its impact from early modernism through Surrealism and Conceptual practices, it shows how mechanical reproduction and the tableau reshape ideas of originality, authorship, and temporality. Through close readings of images and discourses, it demonstrates how the photographic condition permeates multiple media, blurring boundaries between document and art and transforming the viewer’s gaze.