How to look at the world

In his book, Nicholas Mirzoev (born 1962), a professor of media, visual culture and communications at New York University, proposes to consider the most famous images in history in order to context and understand the modern visual world. Based on the history of art, sociology, semiotics and everyday experience, the author shows the techniques of attentive reading of images: from selfie astronauts to self -portraits of impressionists, from Alfred Hitchcock to the video shot by drones. Mirzoev invites us to an exciting journey through visual revolutions in art and science: from new techniques in images in the 17th century to new styles in the visual arts in the 18th century and to the invention of cinema, photography, X -ray radiation in the 19th century. In the modern network world, mobile technologies and social networks provide opportunities for practicing the production and distribution of images to manage political and social changes. Whether we look at the photographs to see the influence of climatic changes on the natural and urban landscape or neurological dependence in the images of MRI, Mirzoev will help us understand what we see. This impressive and affordable introduction into a visual culture will show how images change our life and how we can use this influence