The Engine of Visualization: Thinking through Photography

Patrick Maynard

ISBN 10: 0801486890 / ISBN 13: 9780801486890

Published by Cornell University Press, 2000

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Covers have wear/scratches. Bit of waviness near upper corner of first two pages. No names, underlining, notes or highlighting. c1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Engine of Visualization: Thinking through Photography
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801486890
• ISBN 13: 9780801486890
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

In 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.