Photography and Its Shadow

Informationen zum Autor Hagi Kenaan is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Present Personal (2005) and The Ethics of Visuality (2013). Klappentext Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium, this book argues that photography has never been a single, selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship to time and to death. Zusammenfassung Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium! this book argues that photography has never been a single! selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship to time and to death. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I: Photography's Nature: The Picture II: The Butades Complex III: Photography and the Death of God IV: Photography's Goodbyes

Product details

• Authors: Hagi Kenaan
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781503606364
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0636-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Fotografie, Kunsttheorie, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, ART / Criticism & Theory, Art & Art Instruction, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism