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====== Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie (1983) ======

{{:img_20190213_203037.jpg?nolink&200x301  |img_20190213_203037.jpg}}In 1983, Flusser's first book in German, //Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie// [//Towards a philosophy of photography//], was published by [[https://equivalence-shop.com/p/vilem-flusser-fuer-eine-philosophie-der-fotografie|European Photography]]. In 1984, the first English translation was published under the title //Towards a philosophy of photography//, 1985 the Brazilian Portuguese version //Filosofia da Caixa Preta: Ensaios para uma futura filosofia da fotografia//. Flusser "wrote and published four original versions, two in German, one in English and one in Portuguese"(([[:tag:person:marc_lenot|]] , Für eine Philosophy of Caixa Preta. Critical textual analysis of the different versions of Vilém Flusser's book Towards a Philosophy of Photography and a short history of its editions. In: Flusser Studies 30 - Vilém Flusser and His “Languages”, November 2020,  [[http://www.flusserstudies.net/lenot-critical-textual-analysis.pdf|www.flusserstudies.net/lenot-critical-textual-analysis.pdf]])) . Meanwhile, it has gone into its 12th edition and has been translated into 25 languages.((Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie, European Photography, Göttingen, 12th edition 2018,  [[https://equivalence-shop.com/p/vilem-flusser-fuer-eine-philosophie-der-fotografie|https://equivalence-shop.com/vilem-flusser-fuer-eine-philosophie-der-fotografie]]))

In February 1981, Flusser took part in a photography symposium at Schloss Mikkeln near Düsseldorf, where he met his future publisher, the photographer and editor of the journal European Photography Andreas Müller-Pohle, who encourages him to write a book based on his lecture (//Wie sind Fotografien zu entziffern?//). The essay //Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie// (//Towards a Philosophy of Photography//) was written and marked the beginning of an intensive collaboration that lasted for years.(([[:tag:person:klaus_sander|]] [[:flusser-quellen|Flusser-Quellen. Eine kommentierte Bibliografie Vilém Flussers von 1960–2002]] , in: Vilém Flusser Archive, Projects, (formerly intended for publication at European Photography, Edition Flusser, vol. I), p. 25))

===== description =====

In his first German-language book publication, Flusser proposes a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics serves him new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser shows how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) goes hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity.((See  [[https://equivalence.com/edition-flusser|https://equivalence.com/edition-flusser]] and  [[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo3535843.html|https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo3535843.html]]))

===== contents =====

Introductory Note – I The Image – II The Technical Image – III The Apparatus – IV The Gesture of Photographing – V Photography – VI The Distribution of Photography – VII The Reception of Photography – VIII The Photographic Universe – IX The Need for a Philosophy of Photography – [[:fuer_eine_philosophie_der_fotografie:a_lexicon_of_basic_concepts|]](([[:tag:person:klaus_sander|]] [[:flusser-quellen|Flusser-Quellen. Eine kommentierte Bibliografie Vilém Flussers von 1960–2002]] , in: Vilém Flusser Archive, Projects, (formerly intended for publication at European Photography, Edition Flusser, vol. I), p. 41-42))

//Towards a Philosophy of Photography//, Reaktion Books, London, 2000, 96 pages. [[https://archive.org/details/vilem-flusser-towards-a-philosophy-of-photography-ocr/page/n83/mode/2up|Internet Archive Scan]]

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===== keywords =====

[[:apparatus|apparatus]], [[:automation|automaton]], [[:code|code]], [[:concept|concept]], [[:culture|culture]], [[:decode|decode]], [[:entropy|entropy]], [[:functionary|functionary]], [[:game|game]], [[:gesture|gesture, history]], [[:idea|idea]], [[:idolatry|idolatry]], [[:image|image]], [[:traditional_imagination|traditional imagination]], [[:new_imagination|new imagination]], [[:industrial_society|industrial society]], [[:information|information]], [[:machine|machine]], [[:magical|magic]], [[:memory|memory]], [[:object|object]], [[:photography|photography]], [[:photographer|photographer]], [[:post-history|post-history]], [[:programming|program]], [[:reality|reality]], [[:redundancy|redundancy]], [[:sign|sign]], [[:significance|significance]], [[:symbol|symbol]], [[:technical_images|technical image]], [[:text|text]], [[:tool|tool]], [[:translation|translation]], [[:work_labor|work]]

===== featured research =====

[[:tag:person:marc_lenot|]], Für eine Philosophy of Caixa Preta. Critical textual analysis of the different versions of Vilém Flusser's book //Towards a Philosophy of Photography// and a short history of its editions. In: [[http://www.flusserstudies.net/archive/flusser-studies-30-november-2020-vilém-flusser-and-his-“languages”|Flusser Studies 30]], Vilém Flusser and His “Languages”, November 2020, [[http://www.flusserstudies.net/sites/www.flusserstudies.net/files/media/attachments/lenot-critical-textual-analysis.pdf|www.flusserstudies.net/lenot-critical-textual-analysis.pdf]]

===== citation =====

|{{:img_20190213_203037.jpg?100x151|img_20190213_203037.jpg}} \\ {{https://wiki.flusser.club//lib/plugins/ckgedit/fckeditor/userfiles/image/fuereinephilosophiederfotografie.jpeg?nolink&100x150|fuereinephilosophiederfotografie.jpeg}}|//F////ür eine Philosophie der Fotografie//, [[https://equivalence-shop.com/p/vilem-flusser-fuer-eine-philosophie-der-fotografie|European Photography]], Göttingen, 1983; 2nd edition 1985; 3rd edition 1988; 4th, revised edition 1989; 5th edition 1991; 6th edition 1992; 7th edition 1994; 8th, revised edition 1997; 9th edition 1999; 10th edition 2006; 11th edition 2011(([[:bibliography_vilem_flusser|]] . In:  [[:de:flusseriana|]] . An Intellectual Toolbox, English / German / Portuguese, Minneapolis 2015, edited by Siegfried Zielinski / Peter Weibel / Daniel Irrgang, pp. 520-526)) ; 12th edition 2018|
|{{:img_20190213_204600.jpg?100x149  |img_20190213_204600.jpg}}|//To////wards a Philosophy of Photography//, European Photography, Göttingen, 1984|
|{{:towardsaphilosophyofphotography.jpg?100x164  |towardsaphilosophyofphotography.jpg}}|//T////owards a Philosophy of Photography//, [[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo3535843.html|Reaktion Books]], London, 2000|

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