Visual Studies

An essay on the the appearance of the image.

This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.

The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.