Philosophy of photography

Photo - an artificial image of the environment or the look of aesthetically sophisticated master, art or just fixing life, semiotics, fashion - has become such an ordinary part of modern life that few of us are thinking about what it is essentially for, and for which it is needed, and What is its benefit (if there is one at all) Henri Van Lier proposed his answer to these questions. Which turned out to be quite unexpected. Its results were efforts: he managed to detect and give an explanation not only the specifics of photographs of various genres (even at first glance banal or even the most daring), but also their cultural, social and anthropological functions. He managed to see and "read" photos: initially as an imprint of photons encountered with a sensitive film, then as a reflection (which we are used to considering objective) what “saw” a camera, and then to what she can tell about the object itself, About the photographer, about time and place, etc. This is a whole art, which, in the ordinaryness of people"s desire to capture every interesting moment in their lives, becomes available only to the master and professionals who study this type of art.
The book, first of all, will be interesting to photographers - professional and amators, designers, advertisers, philosophers, culturalists, and all those associated with visual communication