Andy Fisher
Lecturer
Visual Cultures
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Andy Fisher teaches on the BA 1st year module Space & Time and the BA 2nd and 3rd module Patterns of Perception.
Research Interest
Photography, networked digital imaging and its political and philosophical discourses. Social and political structures of perception informing photography and related media. Relationships between technical image forms and phenomenological thought, with a particular emphasis on the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Andy's current work engages with the intertwined geographical, political, technical and phenomenological meanings of scale and sequence in historical and contemporary forms of photography. He is in the process of completing a book entitled: On a Photographic Scale: The Spaces, Times and Social Form of the Contemporary Image.
Publications
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Photographic Scale Fisher, Andrew. 2013. Photographic Scale. In: Daniel Rubinstein; Johnny Golding and Andrew Fisher, eds. On The Verge of Photography: Imaging Beyond Representation. Birmingham: ARTicle, pp. 151-169. ISBN 978-1-873352-02-1
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Merleau-Ponty Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Fisher, Andrew. 2018. Merleau-Ponty Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts. London: I.B. Taurus. ISBN 9781848857995
