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We Are All Here Now: Presence in Contemporary Photography and New Media Sam Falls
We Are All Here Now: Presence in Contemporary Photography and New Media
Sam Falls
This book addresses the issues directly involved withthe photographic image andits ever growing exhibition in various realms ofWestern society, from its role inadvertising and editorial communication to fine art. Special attention is given torepresentations of the human form and how portraiturehas developed via an art historicalperspective to its present manifestation inphotography and new media, such as digitalimaging and video. We are living in a world wherephotographic representationholds a very real position in one?s everydayexistence. Through examples of both traditional oilpainted portraits and contemporary photography, thisbook examines the spectator/subject relationship andthe subsequent dislocation in space and time of theviewer as the Other.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 8, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9783639056945 |
| Publishers | VDM Verlag |
| Pages | 72 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 108 g |
| Language | English |