Depth Effects

Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

Brooke Belisle

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University of California Press
10 May 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; Electronic, holographic & video art; Photography & photographs; Society & culture: general; Media studies; Impact of science & technology on society

In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost-forgotten media forms. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Belisle explores depth both as a problem of visual representation (how can flat images depict a voluminous world?) and as a philosophical paradox (how do things cohere beyond the limits of our view?). She explains how today's depth effects continue colonialist ambitions toward totalizing ways of seeing. But she also shows how artists deploy dimensionality to articulate what remains invisible and irreducible.

By: Brooke Belisle
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520393868
ISBN 10: 0520393864
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 10 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brooke Belisle is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University.

Reviews for Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

" ""This scholarship illuminates a deeper understanding of dimensional aesthetics, computational imaging, and how we see and experience the world through photographic representation. It is, in my opinion, a triumph in the field of visual culture studies."" * Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists *"