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The practice of light : a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels / Sean Cubitt.

By: Cubitt, Sean, 1953- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: LeonardoPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262027656Subject(s): Art and technology | Visual perception | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 701.8 Summary: 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 21st century - digital video, film, and photography - through a history of materials and practices that begins with the inventions of intaglio printing and oil painting.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 21st century - digital video, film, and photography - through a history of materials and practices that begins with the inventions of intaglio printing and oil painting.

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