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Towards a Philosophy of Photography - Flusser, Vilem
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Media philosopher Vil???m 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 ...

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Towards a Philosophy of Photography 2000, Reaktion Books, London, England

ISBN-13: 9781861890764

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