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Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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In this book, Vilém Flusser proposes a revoutionary 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.

Author(s): Vilém Flusser
Publisher: Reaktion Books Ltd
Year: 1983

Language: English
City: London

Introductory Note: 7
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
Lexicon of Basic Concepts: 83
Afterword, Hubertus von Amelunxen: 86