After Photography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393050240)

After Photography examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on cell phones to the widespread use of image surveillance. In a world beset by critical problems and ambiguous boundaries, Fred Ritchin argues that it is time to begin energetically exploring the possibilities created by digital innovations and to use them to better understand our rapidly changing world.

Ritchin--one of our most influential commentators on photography--investigates the future of visual media as the digital revolution transforms images into a hypertextual medium, fundamentally changing the way we conceptualize the world. Simultaneously, the increased manipulation of photographs makes photography suspect as reliable documentation, raising questions about its role in recounting personal and public histories. In the tradition of John Berger and Susan Sontag, Ritchin analyzes photography's failings and reveals untapped potentials for the medium.

Author: Fred Ritchin
ISBN-10: 0393050246
ISBN-13: 9780393050240
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2008
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.90w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/13/2008 pg. 49
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/23/2009 pg. 18
Scientific American 04/01/2009 pg. 83