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This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to prehistoric times with the analysis of present and near-future technologies, the authors show that screens have always incorporated not only the hiding/showing functions but also the protecting/exposing ones, as the Covid-19 pandemic retaught us. The intertwining of these functions allows the authors to criticize the mainstream ideas of images as inseparable from screens, of words as opposed to images, and of what they call “Transparency 2.0” ideology, which currently dominates our socio-political life. Moreover, they show how wearable technologies don’t approximate us to a presumed disappearance of screens but seem to draw a circular pathway back to using our bodies as screens. This raises new relational, ethical, and political questions, which this book helps to illuminate.

Computer input-output equipment --- Human-computer interaction --- Optical images --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophy. --- Screens

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Over the past 25 years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image. "Photography: theoretical snapshots" offers nine exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world's leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, with topics including: a community-based understanding of Spencer Tunick's controversial installations, the tactile and auditory dimensions of photographic viewing, snapshot photography, and the use of photography in human rights discourse. "Photography: theoretical snapshots" also addresses the question of photography history, revisiting the work of some of the most influential theorists such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and the October group, re-evaluating the neglected genre of the carte-de-visite photograph, and addressing photography's wider role within the ideologies of modernity. The collection opens with an introduction by the editors, analysing the trajectory of photography studies and theory over the past three decades and the ways in which the discipline has been constituted. Ranging from the most personal to the most dehumanized uses of photography, from the nineteenth century to the present day, from Latin America to Northern Europe.

Photography --- Images, Photographic. --- Photographic images --- Image processing --- Imaging systems --- Optical images --- Philosophy. --- Images, Photographic --- 77.01 --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- fotografie --- fotografietheorie --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Philosophy --- IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHIQUES --- PHOTOGRAPHIE --- PHILOSOPHIE

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This book explores issues of creation, distribution, and control of images through official and unofficial sources, asking what impact that has had on human rights and what the ethical implications are. The volume includes research from healthcare advocates, human rights scholars and activists, photographers, and visual anthropologists who see a need for more careful contextual interpretation of images in global and local settings. It represents diverse forms of scholarship and the ever-changing field of research methodologies, and it examines how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual works to communicate these issues with the public. As such, this collection will be useful for researchers studying in the fields of visual culture and human rights.

Human rights. --- Human rights --- Images, Photographic --- Social aspects. --- Photographic images --- Image processing --- Imaging systems --- Optical images --- Photography --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation

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Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life. Balancing theoretical reflections with in-depth case studies, it brings together renowned scholars and activists from different fields to offer a multifaceted critical perspective on a crucial aspect of contemporary visual culture -- Back cover.

War. --- Politics in art. --- Motion pictures --- Mass media --- Images, Photographic. --- Documentary mass media. --- Guerre. --- Politique dans l'art. --- Cinéma --- Images photographiques. --- Médias documentaires. --- Photographic images --- Image processing --- Imaging systems --- Optical images --- Photography --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Performing arts --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Peace --- Communication in politics --- Political aspects. --- Aspect politique. --- History and criticism --- Documentary mass media --- Images, Photographic --- Politics in motion pictures --- Politics in art --- War --- Political aspects --- Mass media - Political aspects --- Motion pictures - Political aspects --- Mass media Political aspects --- Activism. --- Image operations. --- Insurgency. --- Military. --- Political conflict. --- Terrorism. --- Visual Culture. --- Visual media. --- Warfare.

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At the end of the 20th century we are accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album of daily newspaper - where the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. This text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph itself. It explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt photographic image, and the forty or so years during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilited to the printed page. The author's emphasis is on British books. Not only was it in an English book that the paper photograph was first described and published, but the range of subject matter of 19th-century British photographically illustrated books prior to the 1880s was as rich as it was peculiar and sometimes recalcitrant. Carol Armstrong focuses on one book about photography (Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature"); one "scientific" book (Anna Atkins' "Photographs of British Algae"); two travel narrative, one factual and one fictional (Francis Firth's "Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Observed", and his illustrated edition of Longfellow's novel "Hyperion: A Romance"); and one book of poetry (Julia Margaret Cameron's "Illustrations to Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King); as well as some miscellaneous books from the 1870s. According to Armstrong, art history has tended to remove the historic photograph from its printed and published context. Moving back and forth between close looking and equally close reading, she aims to reinsert the photograph into the book from which it was taken.

Images, Photographic --- Photography --- Illustrated books --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Photographic images --- Image processing --- Imaging systems --- Optical images --- History --- 655.533 --- 77.01 --- 77 "18" --- 77 ATKINS, ANNA --- 77 CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET --- 77 FRITH, FRANCIS --- 77 TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX --- 77 FRITH, FRANCIS Fotografie--FRITH, FRANCIS --- Fotografie--FRITH, FRANCIS --- 77 CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET Fotografie--CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET --- Fotografie--CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET --- 77 TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX Fotografie--TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX --- Fotografie--TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX --- 77 "18" Fotografie--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Fotografie--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Boekillustratie --- Fotografie--ATKINS, ANNA --- Book history --- anno 1800-1899 --- 77.035 --- CDL