A World of Images
Author | : Laura H. Chapman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780871922304 |
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Author | : Laura H. Chapman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780871922304 |
Author | : Patrick Nathan |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1640094547 |
Susan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism. Images come at us quickly, often without context. A photograph of Syrian children suffering in the wake of a chemical attack segues into a stranger’s pristine Instagram selfie. Before we can react to either, a new meme induces a laugh and a share. While such constant give and take might seem innocent, even entertaining, this barrage of content numbs our ability to examine critically how the world, broken down into images, affects us. Images without context isolate us, turning everything we experience into mere transactions. It is exactly this alienation that leaves us vulnerable to fascism—a reactionary politics that is destroying not only our lives and our nations, but also the planet’s very ability to sustain human civilization. Who gets to control the media we consume? Can we intervene, or at least mitigate the influence of constant content? Mixing personal anecdotes with historical and political criticism, Image Control explores art, social media, photography, and other visual mediums to understand how our culture and our actions are manipulated, all the while building toward the idea that if fascism emerges as aesthetics, then so too can anti-fascism. Learning how to ethically engage with the world around us is the first line of defense we have against the forces threatening to tear that world apart.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004263853 |
The well-illustrated articles in Observing the World through Images offer insights into the uses of images in astronomy, mathematics, instrument-making, medicine and alchemy, highlighting shared forms as well as those peculiar to individual disciplines. Themes addressed include: the processes of image production and communication; the transformation of images through copying and adaptation for new purposes; genres and traditions of imagery in particular scientific disciplines; the mnemonic and pedagogical value of diagrams; the relationship between text and image; and the roles of diagrams as tools to think with. Contributors include: Isabelle Pantin, Jennifer Rampling, Samuel Gessner, Renee Raphael, Karin Ekholm, Hester Higton, and Katie Taylor.
Author | : David Friend |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2011-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312591489 |
Relates the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.
Author | : Nicholas Mirzoeff |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0465096018 |
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the process, we are producing a new worldview powered by changing demographics -- one where the majority of people are young, urban, and globally connected. In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images -- from Velezquez's Las Meninas to the iconic "Blue Marble" -- to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos taken by drones. Mirzoeff takes us on a journey through visual revolutions in the arts and sciences, from new mapping techniques in the seventeenth century to new painting styles in the eighteenth and the creation of film, photography, and x-rays in the nineteenth century. In today's networked world, mobile technology and social media enable us to exercise "visual activism" -- the practice of producing and circulating images to drive political and social change. Whether we are looking at pictures showing the effects of climate change on natural and urban landscapes or an fMRI scan demonstrating neurological addiction, Mirzoeff helps us to find meaning in what we see. A powerful and accessible introduction to this new visual culture, How to See the World reveals how images shape our lives, how we can harness their power for good, and why they matter to us all.
Author | : John Amadeus Wolter |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Lavishly illustrated with 196 rare and historical maps it recounts tales of atlas makers from pre-Gutenberg to electronic atlas.
Author | : Kelly Knauer |
Publisher | : Time |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781603201971 |
Here is a book that indelibly captures the human pageant through the remarkable art of photojournalism. After all, we live in a visual age, when history is both made and experienced through photographs, from the flag raising at Iwo Jima to the thrill of the first footstep on the moon. Now TIME has gathered the most significant and influential photos in history in a magnificent volume that celebrates the art and craft of photojournalism: Great Images. Here are scientific breakthroughs, political upheavals and social revolutions, from the first photographs of an embryo in a human womb to the indelible images of America's Civil Rights movement. Here are sailors kissing nurses, a single man defying a Chinese tank, firefighters raising the American flag over the ruins of the World Trade Center. Based on a highly successful 2000 book, this new edition has been completely updated to add the most significant pictures of the last decade, from hanging chads ands the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Author | : Giuseppe Capriotti |
Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9462703272 |
The Christian image in the process of modern globalisation Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and historical insights regarding the circulation of the image on the global scale of the Christianised world or the world in the process of being Christianised, from China to Iberia. Combining the contribution of historians and art historians, the authors highlight the points of intercultural encounter and tension around preaching, catechesis, devotional practices and the propagandistic use of images. Through its aesthetic and social study of the image, and by examining the inner and outer borders of Europe and the mission lands, Eloquent Images contributes significantly to the history of evangelisation, one of the major dynamics of the first European globalisation.
Author | : Laura Chapman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780871922328 |
Author | : Douglas R. Gilbert |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802828002 |
Gilbert and Kilby offer a portrait of C.S. Lewis and the milieu in which he lived, using words and pictures to try to represent vividly some aspects of his life.