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Ways of Seeing Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,472 ratings — published 1972
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Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.78 — 631 ratings — published 2001
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,915 ratings — published 1980
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The Society of the Spectacle The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,508 ratings — published 1967
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The Visual Culture Reader The Visual Culture Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.05 — 147 ratings — published 1998
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An Introduction to Visual Culture An Introduction to Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.93 — 165 ratings — published 1999
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Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 289 ratings — published 2001
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The Medium is the Massage The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,991 ratings — published 1967
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Visual Culture Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 95 ratings — published 2003
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What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.90 — 333 ratings — published 2005
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,742 ratings — published 1936
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Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.88 — 247 ratings — published 1994
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On Photography On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,919 ratings — published 1973
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Mythologies Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,700 ratings — published 1957
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,298 ratings — published 1964
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How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.72 — 842 ratings — published 2015
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Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.16 — 644 ratings — published 2012
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Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University) Visual Culture: The Reader (Published in association with The Open University)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 63 ratings — published 1999
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The Language of New Media The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,065 ratings — published 2001
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Vision and visuality Vision and visuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.99 — 80 ratings — published 1988
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About Looking About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,580 ratings — published 1980
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Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 (Cultural Studies Birmingham) Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 (Cultural Studies Birmingham)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 69 ratings — published 1980
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Black Looks: Race and Representation Black Looks: Race and Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,523 ratings — published 1992
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The Civil Contract of Photography The Civil Contract of Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.17 — 113 ratings — published 2008
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How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 140 ratings — published 2012
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Primer of Visual Literacy Primer of Visual Literacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 859 ratings — published 1973
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.09 — 554 ratings — published 1990
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Feminist Visual Culture Feminist Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published
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Photography and Anthropology (Exposures) Photography and Anthropology (Exposures)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.91 — 34 ratings — published 2011
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The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.35 — 75 ratings — published 2011
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The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,287 ratings — published 1983
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Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.37 — 52 ratings — published
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,027 ratings — published 1993
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,342 ratings — published 1949
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Simulacra and Simulation Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,590 ratings — published 1981
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Visual And Other Pleasures Visual And Other Pleasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 490 ratings — published 1989
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Image - Music - Text Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,838 ratings — published 1977
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Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 759 ratings — published 1997
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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,115 ratings — published 1991
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Listening to Images Listening to Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.34 — 237 ratings — published
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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.98 — 177 ratings — published 1986
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Chinese Painting Chinese Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.25 — 59 ratings — published 1960
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The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published
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Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.77 — 220 ratings — published 1996
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Isotype: Design and Contexts 1925 1971 Isotype: Design and Contexts 1925 1971 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published 2014
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.59 — 220 ratings — published 1995
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Unflattening Unflattening (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,846 ratings — published 2015
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The Future of the Image The Future of the Image (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 567 ratings — published 2003
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Portraits: John Berger on Artists Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 4.32 — 729 ratings — published 2015
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Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in the Middle East and North Africa (Ibraaz Series) Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in the Middle East and North Africa (Ibraaz Series)
by (shelved 2 times as visual-culture)
avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 2014
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“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature – form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.”
Peter Abbs

“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better or more special than another. Through language, one automatically identifies one's place within a social and cultural hierarchy and we all carry with us illogical attitudes about the bearers of particular language, based on our own cultural background and continued exposure to local political ideals.”
David Crow, Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures

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