Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish by Jonathan Finn (review)

Q1 Arts and Humanities
P. Westin
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Jonathan Finn’s 2021 monograph, Beyond the Finish Line: Images, Evidence, and the History of the Photo-Finish, analyzes the history of photographic technology at sports’ finish lines. Finn, trained as an art historian and now a professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, complicates the seemingly mundane task of capturing the finish line. Informed by scholarship in science and technology studies and sport history, Finn argues that the photo-finish is not, and has never been, an objective reflection of sporting reality. Instead, Finn contends, the photo-finish is a cultural artifact—the product of a complex, ever-changing, network of human and technological actors. Through their pursuit of an objective reflection of the finish line, photo-finish proponents have translated the finish into something else. The photo-finish, Finn argues, is a mediated representation of the event, disconnected from the event itself.
《超越终点线:照片、证据和照片完成的历史》乔纳森·芬恩著(书评)
乔纳森·芬恩2021年的专著《终点线之外:图像、证据和摄影终点的历史》分析了体育终点线摄影技术的历史。Finn接受过艺术历史学家的培训,现在是Wilfrid Laurier大学的传播学教授,他让捕捉终点线这项看似平凡的任务变得复杂起来。根据科学技术研究和体育史方面的学术研究,芬恩认为,照片的完成不是,也从来不是体育现实的客观反映。相反,芬恩认为,照片的完成是一种文化产物——是人类和技术行动者复杂、不断变化的网络的产物。通过追求终点线的客观反映,照片饰面的支持者将终点转化为其他东西。Finn认为,照片的完成是对事件的一种中介表现,与事件本身脱节。
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Journal of sport history
Journal of sport history Arts and Humanities-History
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