The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels

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An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.

Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century--digital...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262027658

ISBN13:9780262027656

Release Date:September 2014

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.96 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 7.2" x 9.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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