Series: Investigations of Lens and Screen Arts

The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts—historical, generic, biographical, and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works, it is possible to understand the history, development, and contemporary situation of photography. Looking at images by photographers such as...

New perspectives on photography and binocular vision. The Human Shutter explores how binocular rivalry, termed "the human shutter," provokes a reexamination of the standard chronology of cinema. The role of the human shutter is demonstrated here with a preliminary taxonomy of astonishing images excavated from the photographic archive. The book first looks at how photographic stillness, depth, and motion emerged...