Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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Towards a Philosophy of Photography is written by Vilém Flusser and published by Reaktion Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1780232446 (ISBN 10) and 9781780232447 (ISBN 13).

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.