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Photography and the Optical Unconscious Sharon Sliwinski-Shawn Michelle Smith
Photography and the Optical Unconscious
Sharon Sliwinski-Shawn Michelle Smith
This volume's contributors use Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency, thereby opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche.
392 pages, 112 illustrations, incl. 20 in color
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 26, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780822369011 |
| Publishers | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 392 |
| Dimensions | 277 × 185 × 24 mm · 590 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Sliwinski, Sharon |
| Editor | Smith, Shawn Michelle |