The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (Comedia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415121566 ISBN 13: 9780415121569

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

What does a new technology of images mean for the ways in which we encounter and use images in everyday life: in advertising, entertainment, news, evidence? And within our domestic and private worlds for our sense of self and indentity; our view of the body and our sexuality?
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the technological transformation of the image and its implications for photography. Contributors investigate such issues as the relationship of technological change to visual culture; the new discourses of `techno-culture'; medicine's new vision of the body, and interactive pornography. They also examine the cultural meanings of new surveillance images; shifts in the domestic consumption of images and their relationship to memory, history and biography; the social uses of video and computer games and the changing role of photography as document and as art.

About this title

About the Author

Martin Lister is Head of Cultural and Media Studies at Newport School of Art and Design. He is co-editor of Youth, Culture and Photography (1988) and is a project director and contributor to the forthcoming CD ROM From Silver to Silicon

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415121566
• ISBN 13: 9780415121569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Lister Martin