Towards a philosophy of photography / Vilém Flusser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991.

Standardized Title:

Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Physical Description:

94 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2000.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

In this book, media critic and philosopher Vilem Flusser proposes a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography: an analysis in which the aesthetic, scientific and political aspects of the medium act as a key to the diagnosis of the current cultural crisis and the new form of existence and society taking shape within it. Flusser shows that the change from a text-based to an image-based culture (from the linearity of history to the two-dimensionality of magic) and the change from an industrial to a post-industrial society (from work to play) go hand in hand, and how this mutation can be seen with particular clarity in the case of photography.

Contents:

The Image 8

The Technical Image 14

The Apparatus 21

The Gesture of Photography 33

The Photograph 41

The Distribution of Photographs 49

The Reception of Photographs 57

The Photographic Universe 65

Why a Philosophy of Photography Is Necessary 76.

ISBN:

1861890761

OCLC:

44184096