Objects of Vision : : Making Sense of What We See / / A. Joan Saab.
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubli...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives on Sensory History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (166 p.) :; 31 color/13 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue In Memory of . . .
- Introduction Making Sense of What We See
- Chapter 1 The Persistence of Miraculous Vision
- Chapter 2 Technological Vision Hoaxes and the Desire to Believe
- Chapter 3 Camera Vision and the Quest for Indexical Truths
- Chapter 4 Untitled Postmodern Vision and the Triumph of the Pseudo-Event
- Conclusion How to Look at a Million Images
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index