VCC101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 183-190: Magic Lantern, Eadweard Muybridge
25 Jan 2017
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To destribe a copy of an original work. In marxist theory: it is used to describe the ways that cultural practices and their forms of expression reproduce the ideologies and interests of the ruling class, the reproduction of ideology through media. Consider the reporuction of images through technological means and the social and cultural changes that accompanty changes in technologies of reproduction. How the photographic camera changed things in the world: change the way we see, how we use images. Photography became a popular visual techonology because it fit emerging social concepts and the needs of that time: the desire to contain nature and landscape in meachnically reproducible form, rise of bureautic institutions in the modern state. Helped usher the age of modernity to the extent that it epitomizes that era. Photography emerged with the discourse of science the penal system, medicine, the media, and other institutions of everyday life that made visual reproducibility one of the imperatives of modernity.
