Thinking Photography

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23395083
EditoresVictor Burgin
Año1982
Fecha de publicación1982-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaThinking Photography (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialMacmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-16716-6
OpenAlexW4255994766
Open LibraryOL35948023M
ISBN9781349167166
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas83

Communications has been defined as the conveying or exchanging of information and ideas.This wide definition is taken as the starting-point for this series of books, which are not bound by conventional academic divisions.The series aims to document or analyse a broad range of cultural forms and ideas.It encompasses works from areas as esoteric as linguistics and as exoteric as television.The language of communication may be the written word or the moving picture, the static icon or the living gesture.These means of communicating can at their best blossom into and form an essential part of the other mysterious concept, culture.There is no sharp or intended split in the series between communication and culture.On one definition, culture refers to the organisation of experience shared by members of a community, a process which includes the standards and values for judging or perceiving, for predicting and acting.In this sense, creative communication can make for a better and livelier culture.The series reaches towards the widest possible audience.Some of the works concern themselves with activities as general as play and games; others offer a narrower focus, such as the ways of understanding the visual image.It is hoped that some moves in the transformation of the artful and the scientific can be achieved, and that both can begin to be understood by a wider and more comprehending community.Some of these books are written by practitioners -broadcasters, journalists and artists; others come from critics, scholars, scientists and historians.The series has an ancient and laudable, though perhaps untenable, aim -an aim as old as the Greeks and as new as holography; it aspires to help heal the split between cultures, between the practitioners and the thinkers, between science and aI't, between the academy and life.

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