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Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Door Vilém Flusser

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#339615-XF17
Titel
Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Auteur
Flusser, Vilém
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Reaktion Books
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
1861890761
ISBN13
9781861890764
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Shows 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.

With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen 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
... (Lees verder)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.
Pagina's
94
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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