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.
Author(s): Vilem Flusser, Vilm Flusser
Edition: 0
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 176
Cover
Towards a Philosophy of Photography
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Contents
Introductory Note
One: The Image
Two: The Technical Image
Three: The Apparatus
Four: The Gesture of Photography
Five: The Photograph
Six: The Distribution of Photographs
Seven: The Reception of Photographs
Eight: The Photographic Universe
Nine: Why a Philosophy of Photography Is Necessary
Ten: Lexicon of Basic Concepts
Afterword, Hubertus Von Amelunxen
