Documenting the World

Documenting the World
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226129259
ISBN-13 : 022612925X
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Documenting the World by : Gregg Mitman

Download or read book Documenting the World written by Gregg Mitman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists’ renderings and the spoken and written word. To inhabitants of the twenty-first century, deeply immersed in visual culture, such a history seems insubstantial, imprecise, and even, perhaps, unscientific. Documenting the World is about the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Drawing on scholars from the fields of art history, visual anthropology, and science and technology studies, the chapters in this book explore how this documentation—from the initial recording of images, to their acquisition and storage, to their circulation—has altered our lives, our ways of knowing, our social and economic relationships, and even our surroundings. Far beyond mere illustration, photography and film have become an integral, transformative part of the world they seek to show us.


Documenting the World Related Books

Documenting the World
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Gregg Mitman
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-20 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camp
Marketing Fine Art Photography
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Alain Briot
Categories: Photographs
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Many photographers don't have the business and marketing knowledge required to successfully sell fine-art photographs. Briot offers practical, up-to-date, and f
Photography and the Art Market
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Juliet Hacking
Categories: Antique collecting for men
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Handbooks in International Art Business

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

*Photography and the Art Market* charts the transition of photographs created for aesthetic ends from a hobbyist pastime to a core component of the internationa
The Blind Photographer
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Julian Rothenstein
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-06 - Publisher: Chronicle Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The blind photographer cannot see a butterfly perched perfectly still on a flower, a bowl of sweet-smelling fruit, or a child's rattle on a darkened floor, but
Photographer's Market 2018
Language: en
Pages: 1175
Authors: Noel Rivera
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-12 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Discover Powerful Secrets of Successful Photographers Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer's Market as a resource for growing their b