Age of the Image
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- Episode
- Episode 1 - A New Reality
- Broadcast Info
- 2020 (60 mins)
- Description
- In a major new series, art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. This first episode starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world. From the impact of aerial photography on modern art to our ability to peer inside the body and freeze time itself, it’s a dizzying journey of visual invention, making fascinating connections between the work of artists, filmmakers, photographers and scientists. Revealing Salvador Dali’s debt to Einstein, the ground-breaking trickery of Buster Keaton and shockingly modern fakery of WWI photos, James Fox offers an endlessly surprising, eye-opening look at the beginnings of our image saturated age.
- Genre
- Arts; History; Technology; Film; Photography
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The Open University, "Age of the Image". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/236369 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)