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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.

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A relatively little-known but significant text. -- Lindsay Smith, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies

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With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen

Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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      Publisher Reaktion Books
      Published 1 October 2000
      ISBN-13 9781861890764
      978-1861890764
      ISBN-10 1861890761
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      Art & Photography Photography and photographs Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      A relatively little-known but significant text. -- Lindsay Smith, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Studies

      Table of Contents
      With an introduction by Hubertus von Amelunxen

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