How Images Think

by Ron Burnett

Book Overview

The transformation of images in the age of new media and the digital revolution.

Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with more and more intelligence programmed into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262524414
• ISBN13: 9780262524414
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great book -- a must-read

Ron Burnett's "How Images Think" is a major contribution to the current discussion surrounding images and the digital universe, and is essential reading for anyone interested in thinking about the implications of our relationship to analog and digital media. The book itself is gorgeously designed, with a luminous cover; each chapter is absorbing, and the reading experience is enhanced by the inclusion of additional sidebar comments/text, and interesting photographs. Most importantly, the text is full of intelligent and honest ideas about the contemporary process of interacting with images. It is academic and personal, complex and readable. The author's discussion of the internet as a "gateway" that transforms the computer from a device into a portal (ref. Chapter 6 "Humans--Machines"), is very astute, as are his thoughts on how current discussions of mind/consciousness often draw on metaphors used in computer science and engineering. A great book, overall, which I recommend to all.

One of the best books I have read in a while

What a wonderful experience! This books is both personal and critical. I was impressed with the author's range of knowledge and desire to bring new ideas to the reader. His range is wonderful!!

Great book

The author's breadth really impressed... a handsome book, well-written, well-designed. The cover is unique. The book should be excellent for college level courses. I loved reading it.

Like Roland Barthes

The first chapter of this book examines a photograph taken by theauthor. He use the photo to meditate on the Holocaust. It remindedme of the work of Roland Barthes. Overall, a great book!

Opens a Window

How Images Think is a must read for those who create, work with and consumer images today.The author opens a window very wide and asks us to consider, with him, the changes and the effects technology continues to have on the act of representation.