Towards a Philosophy of Photography
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Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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Towards a Philosophy of Photography

About this book

Media philosopher Vilém 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.

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Information

Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781861890764
eBook ISBN
9781780232447
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Photography

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introductory Note
  7. The Image
  8. The Technical Image
  9. The Apparatus
  10. The Gesture of Photography
  11. The Photograph
  12. The Distribution of Photographs
  13. The Reception of Photographs
  14. The Photographic Universe
  15. Why a Philosophy of Photography Is Necessary
  16. Lexicon of Basic Concepts
  17. Afterword, Hubertus von Amelunxen