Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 770.1 FLU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100566539 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
First publ. 2000.
Translated from the German.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introductory Note (p. 7)
- The Image (p. 8)
- The Technical Image (p. 14)
- The Apparatus (p. 21)
- The Gesture of Photography (p. 33)
- The Photograph (p. 41)
- The Distribution of Photographs (p. 49)
- The Reception of Photographs (p. 57)
- The Photographic Universe (p. 65)
- Why a Philosophy of Photography Is Necessary (p. 76)
- Lexicon of Basic Concepts (p. 83)
- Afterword, Hubertus von Amelunxen (p. 86)