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Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis -- to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human.

Portraits. --- Personality and culture. --- Digital images. --- Computer art. --- Art, Computer --- Computer craft --- Digital art --- Digitized images --- Images, Digital --- Civilization and personality --- Culture and personality --- Portraiture --- New media art --- Pictures --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Art --- Biography --- portraiture --- art --- digital technology --- anthropology --- Essay --- Photography --- Rembrandt

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This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film cameras were understood as creating some sort of a trace of the real city. Digital visual technologies, in contrast, harvest and process digital data to create images that are constantly refreshed, modified and circulated. Each of the chapters in this volume examines a different example of this processual visuality is reconfiguring the spatial and temporal organisation of urban life.

City and town life. --- Digital images. --- Public spaces. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- urban, digital, visual, technology. --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Digitized images --- Images, Digital --- Pictures --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban