With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen
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.
| ISBN: | 9781861890764 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2000 |
| Author: | Vilém Flusser |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 94 pages |
| Genres: |
Photography and photographs Theory of art |
With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen
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.
Towards a Philosophy of Photography features in the following genres: Photography and photographs, Theory of art
Towards a Philosophy of Photography is available in Paperback
Towards a Philosophy of Photography was written by Vilém Flusser and published by Reaktion Books
Towards a Philosophy of Photography has 94 pages
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