Paola Yacoub
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Portrait with a camera © Paola Yacoub, 2025Vilèm Flusser compared the activity of the photographer to that of a chess player. Both are involved in a kind of combinatory game – a programme, in other words – since the photographer, according to Flusser, plays at exploring the pre-programmed possibilities contained by her camera. As a child growing up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, Paola Yacoub invented games of her own. Whilst sheltering from the fighting, she relieved her anxiety an...
Source: Critique d’art
DOI: 10.4000/147ks
Author: Larisa Dryansky
Language: French
Topic: Photographic and Visual Arts
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411629658
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