Main entry:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991.

Title & Author:

Towards a philosophy of photography / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Anthony Mathews.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, [2000]
©2000

Description:

1 online resource (94 pages)

Notes:
Image -- Technical image -- Apparatus -- Gesture of photography -- Photograph -- Distribution of photographs -- Reception of photographs -- Photographic universe -- Why a philosophy of photography is necessary -- Lexicon of basic concepts -- Afterword / Hubertus von Amelunxen.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket

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ISBN:

9781780232447 (electronic bk.)
1780232446 (electronic bk.)
1861890761
9781861890764

Subject:

Photography Philosophy.
Photographie Philosophie.
COMPUTERS Digital Media Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Imaging Systems.
Fotografie.
Filosofische aspecten.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Essay Collection.