Notes on VilÃĐm Flusser’s Philosophy of Photography: Chapter 1, the Image
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Goraczka, Tomasz Setowski Images are significant surfaces. This means that images signify, as well as make comprehensible as an abstraction, âsomething âout thereâ.â Images are reduced from âfour dimensions of space and timeâ to âtwo surface dimensions.â (8) Imagination is this specific ability to abstract surfaces out of space and time and to project them back into space and time. Imagination is the precondition for producing and decoding images. âThe ability to encode phenomena into […]