Light + photomedia : a new history and future of the photographic image /: a new history and future of the photographic image. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Light and photomedia
• Further Information: Note: Jai McKenzie.
• Other Names: McKenzie, Jai
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Early image machines: The invention of photography c.1830-c.1870 -- Luminous beginnings -- Light source: the origin of the image machines -- A sociological perspective -- Light-space-time -- Image-space -- Seeing machines -- Ever brighter: moving on from the glow of the early image machines -- 2. Analogue image machines c.1870-c.1990 -- Super vision: the analogue era -- Standing still: the instantaneous capture of light-time -- Moving quickly: Photofuturism and light-time -- Cinematic light-time -- Still and moving light-time -- Light-space in the analogue era -- You press the button: forming image-spaces everywhere -- At the movies: image-spaces in cinema -- Proofs of reality -- Photomontage -- Video art -- Leap into the void -- 3. Digital image machines c.1990-2013 -- Dream machines: technology at the speed of light -- Image-spaces of the digital era: `all that we see or seem' -- Light up: the screen space of digital photomedia. Contents note continued: At the speed of light -- Slow motion: light-time in the digital era -- Void space: digital photomedia and the loss of physical reality -- The digital image-space: a matter of light-space-time -- 4. Future image machines 2039: two hundred years after the invention of photography -- The future? -- The photomedia technology of tomorrow -- The artist of 2039 -- Connected to nothing -- In the `photographic universe' -- At the speed of light -- The future is here.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 180 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 770.1; Images, Photographic; Photography; Light; Images, Photographic; Light; Photography; Fotografie; Ästhetik; COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Photography; PHOTOGRAPHY / Reference; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Imaging Systems; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857736161; 0857736167
• Related ISBNs: 178076278X; 9781780762784; 1780762771; 9781780762777
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.