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The Engine Of Visualization

The Engine Of Visualization

The Engine Of Visualization
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The Engine Of Visualization Hardback - 1997

by Hagood, Johnson,

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Through an approach to photography that is both analytic and consistently sensitive to photo history, Patrick Maynard places photography among modern imaging technologies and addresses some provocative questions. Although Maynard's particular focus is photography, much of his discussion illuminates issues concerning other technologies and other kinds of images. 17 photos. 16 line drawings.

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  • Title The Engine Of Visualization
  • Author Hagood, Johnson,
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1997-12-08
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 264809-n
  • ISBN 9780801433658 / 0801433657
  • Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.39 x 1.06 in (24.03 x 16.23 x 2.69 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Photography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-23981
  • Dewey Decimal Code 770.1
  • Quantity available 5

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Reader reviews for The Engine Of Visualization

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"An extremely fascinating study, packed with insights and illumination and astute observation. It is first-rate philosophy--clearheaded, imaginative, sophisticated, and resourceful. And in its historical and technological dimensions, it connects with the 'real world' in ways that are rare in philosophical studies."--Kendall Walton, University of Michigan"For Patrick Maynard photography is in the first instance a technology for marking surfaces, and from this insight flows the most original sustained analysis and argument yet produced in the history of thinking about the camera and its work. At once analytical and historical, scientific and aesthetic, as lucid and witty as it is learned, The Engine of Visualization spells out the simplest general principles necessary for a clear understanding of what photography--also technology, image, and art--is and does. This is a signal achievement, and a simply lovely book."--Alan Trachtenberg, Yale UniversityIn the first philosophical book wholly about photography, Patrick Maynard dispels some basic, persistent confusions by treating photography as a technology--a way to enhance and filter human power. Once photography is understood as a kind of technology, Maynard argues, insights about technology may be applied to provide the general perspective on photography that has been missing.

About the author

Patrick Maynard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression, also from Cornell.

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