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  Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback) By (author) Vilem Flusser, Translated by Martin Chalmers, Introduction by Hubertus Von Amelunxen

  

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  Short Description for Towards a Philosophy of PhotographyShows 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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  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • Published: 13 October 2000
  • Format: Paperback 96 pages
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  • Categories: Art Theory | Photography | Photographic Reportage | Multicultural Education
  • ISBN 13: 9781861890764 ISBN 10: 1861890761
  • Sales rank: 36,826

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• With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen 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.