How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

Book Overview

Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to the disturbing photographs we see in the news, we are consuming and producing images in quantities and ways that could never have been anticipated. In the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 046509600X
• ISBN13: 9780465096008
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"