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For an Ecology of Images

For an Ecology of Images

Szendy, Peter
Roth, Marco

Paperback

General ArtPhotography History & Criticism

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1804294314
ISBN13: 9781804294314
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.90 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher

When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an ecology of images, she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed.

Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required for images to develop and come into view. This inquisitive essay takes us from mimicry in the animal kingdom to the history of the shadow, Pliny's story about the birth of painting to Nabokov's butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film to the first aerial photograph.

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