In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture

by Victor Burgin

Book Overview

Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity--sexual, racial, national--and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, advertising, and television, and more as hybrid mental constructs composed of fragments derived from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520202996
• ISBN13: 9780520202993
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable contribution to visual culture

Burgin's book is a wonderful contribution to the growing field of visual culture. His examinations of Helmut Newton are beyond reproach, and his ability to link aesthetic experiences with the development of social consciousness (using, among others, theorists Lacan and Mulvey) is impressive. All delivered with good humor and supplemented by personal anecdote, this book is absolutely vital for anyone interesting in visual culture.