{"product_id":"philosophy-of-photography-9789058675989","title":"Philosophy of Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenri Van Lier's contribution to the field of photography is comparable in its scope and achievements to the work of those thinkers who have been most useful to our understanding of the art form: Walter Benjamin, Andre Bazin, Andre Malraux, John Berger, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes. The English-language publication of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e will bring Van Lier into the spotlight. In his profoundly original and innovative reflection on the medium, Van Lier takes note of photography's formal peculiarities and its position and function in human and social life.Van Lier combines an acute sense of detail with an extremely broad interest in the meaning of the medium for humanity. He founded a discipline he calls anthropogeny, which is the historical study of the gradual emergence of what makes us human; in his view, photography has a large role to play in the process. Van Lier gathers a wide range of disciplinary insights and questions from semiotics, history, aesthetics, and, philosophy.This new English-language translation contains a folio of photographs taken by sixteen contemporary photographers, representing both an homage to the author of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and a timely demonstration of the utility of his ideas. Each of the photographers suggest in his or her own image(s) the echoes created by specific points of Van Lier's work in the mind, the eyes, and the hands of contemporary readers and viewers. \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a showcase for Van Lier's keen intelligence but also a work of art in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieven Gevaert Series 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15873172\"\u003eHenri Van Lier\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.60w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789058675989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 905867598X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHO\"\u003ePhotography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHO005000\"\u003eCriticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44544404914413,"sku":"9789058675989","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b3d7c615-4527-4ec8-a85b-b4c5f463c27c.jpg?v=1701556609","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/philosophy-of-photography-9789058675989","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}