| Towards a Philosophy of Photography Contributor(s): Flusser, Vilém (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861890761 ISBN-13: 9781861890764 Publisher: Reaktion Books OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2000 Annotation: Media philosopher Vilem Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Criticism - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries |
| Dewey: 770.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 4.78" W x 7.85" (0.29 lbs) 94 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Media philosopher Vil m Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity. |