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What is The Engine of Visualization : Thinking Through Photography about?
Photography extends our human ability to produce images, which are understood as surface markings - here induced by light. Through an approach to photography that is both analytic and consistently sensitive to photo history, Maynard places photography among modern imaging technologies, such as those familiar in medicine, and addresses some provocative questions. Technologies amplify but they also suppress. What does photography suppress? How should we think about depictive fidelity? What problem
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- Author
- Maynard, Patrick, 1939-
- Publisher
- Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801486890
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Photography, Philosophy, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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