Practice of Light
An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are…
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An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.Light is the condition of all vision, and the visual media are our most important explorations of this condition. The history of visual technologies reveals a centuries-long project aimed at controlling light. In this book, Sean Cubitt traces a genealogy of the dominant visual media of the twenty-first century--digital video, film, and photography--through a history of materials and practices that begins with the inventions of intaglio printing and oil painting. Attending to the specificities of inks and pigments, cathode ray tubes, color film, lenses, screens, and chips, Cubitt argues that we have moved from a hierarchical visual culture focused on semantic values to a more democratic but value-free numerical commodity.Cubitt begins
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