| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 143 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Moving Stills (The Ken Burns Effect) -- Chapter 2: Expanded Photography (The Desire for Endlessness) -- Chapter 3: The Photographic Now (From Sign to Signal) -- Chapter 4: In the Matrix (From Geometry to Algorithm) -- Chapter 5: The Operative Image (Google Street View: The World as Database) -- Chapter 6: In the Urban Data-Space (The Image as Moment of Network Access) -- Conclusion: Softimage -- Bibliography -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Annotation With today's digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is not only part of a program, but it contains its own operating code: the image is a program in itself. 'Softimage' aims to account for that new reality, taking readers on a journey that gradually undoes our unthinking reliance on the apparent solidity of the photographic image and building in its place an original and timely theorization of the digital image in all its complexity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Digital images -- Philosophy
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Computer graphics -- Philosophy
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Photography -- Digital techniques.
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COMPUTERS -- General.
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Photography -- Digital techniques
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Bilder -- teori, filosofi.
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Datorgrafik -- teori, filosofi.
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Digital fotografi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marie, Rémi, author
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| ISBN |
9781783205042 |
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1783205040 |
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1783205032 |
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9781783205035 |
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