Susan Sontag: On Photography (1977-) [EN, ES, PL]
Filed under book | Tags: · image, media history, media theory, photography
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave” essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
Originally published in 1977
Publisher Rosetta Books, New York, 2005
ISBN 0795326998
Review (Clive Joinson, Art Book, 2010)
On Photography (English, updated on 2012-12-27)
Sobre la fotografía (Spanish, trans. Carlos Gardini, 1981, added on 2012-12-27)
O fotografii (Polish, trans. Slawomir Magala, 1986, added on 2012-12-27)
Paul Frosh: The Image Factory. Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · commerce, image, industry, photography, semiotics, visual culture
Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. A ‘global, visual content industry’ increasingly controls images supplied to advertisers, marketers and designers, yet so far the process has, paradoxically, evaded the public eye. This book is the first to expose the interior workings of the visual content industry, which produces approximately 70% of the images that define consumer cultures. The corporate acquisition of major photographic and film archives, as well as the digital rights to much of the worlds fine art, is having a profound effect on what we see. From stock photography to new technologies, this book powerfully engages with the historical and cultural issues relating to visual culture and new media. How has stock photography, the system of renting out ready-made images, transformed the role of marketing and advertising? What impact are digital technologies having on the practices of industry professionals? How have software programs such as Photoshop enabled professionals to play God with photographs and how does this influence our belief in the integrity of images? Combining original research on stock photography with a new theoretical take on the circulation of images in contemporary culture, The Image Factory provides a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of industrialized commercial photography, its uses and abuses.
Publisher Berg Publishers, 2003
ISBN 1859736424, 9781859736425
237 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-6-19)
Comment (1)Jay Gao: Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · georeferencing, image, neural networks, photography, technology
Written in easy-to-follow language with a minimum of technical jargon, Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery provides exhaustive coverage of the entire process of analyzing remotely sensed data for the purpose of producing accurate representations in thematic map format. The book explores cutting-edge techniques and trends in image analysis, as well as the relationship between image processing and other recently emerged special technologies.
Filled with numerous references to the current literature, this essential imaging resource paints a vivid picture of the current status of innovative image analysis methods and future directions in the field. Find state-of-the-art information on storage of remotely sensed data…the image analysis system…image rectification…image enhancement…image classification…accuracy assessment…change detection…intelligent image classification…decision tree classification…integration of image analysis with GIS/GPS…and much more.
Publisher McGraw Hill Professional, 2008
ISBN 0071604650, 9780071604659
Length 645 pages
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