By Mark Cousins
In the tale of taking a look, filmmaker and author Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright journey - in phrases and pictures - via how our having a look selves advance over the process an entire life, and the ways in which taking a look has replaced throughout the centuries. From nice artistic endeavors to vacationer photos, from cityscapes to cinema, via technology and protest, propaganda and refusals to seem, the fake mirrors and nice visionaries of having a look, this ebook illuminates how we build in addition to obtain the issues we see.
Brilliant and eclectic, the tale of having a look is a photograph album and an artwork gallery, a street motion picture and a visible grammar: as soon as you will have learn it, you are going to by no means see issues a similar manner again.
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