The photographic image in digital culture /

The photographic image in digital culture / edited by Martin Lister. - Second edition. - xiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Comedia .

Includes bibliographical references and index.


The advent of the image-oriented computer in the mid-1980s is having a radical effect on the central place of photography in visual culture. What does this new technology of images mean for the ways in which we encounter and use images in everyday life: in advertising, entertainment, news, evidence? Within our domestic and private worlds, how does it influence our sense of self and identity, our view of the body

9780415535298 (pbk.)


Photography--Social aspects.
Images, Photographic.
Photography--Philosophy.
Mass media and the arts.
Popular culture--History--20th century.





--Reading book

770.1 / PHO