The Weight of Photography: A Theoretical Basis for Photographic Humanity

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Bringing together essays from contemporary scholars such as Jean Baudrillard, Terry Barrett, Philippe Dubois, Willem Elias, Annette W. Balkema, and Jan Simons, this collection marks a growing interest in the suggestive yet problematic relation between our experience of photography, video, and film and our perception of the visual world. As an essential concentration of contemporary thought, this selection provides an excellent introduction for newcomers and a fresh point of view for those already engaged in discussions about photography, art, history, education, culture, and criticism.

Johan Swinnen is an art and new-media critic, an editor, and a writer who teaches contemporary art history and theory at the Free University Brussels and at University College Antwerp. Luc Deneulin has studied in Brussels and done exhaustive research on Riefenstahl’s early films.

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