On Seeing: Things Seen, Unseen, and Obscene
F Gonzalez-Crussi
236 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1585676748
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Language: English
Publish: April 6, 2006
A historical, cultural, and spiritual examination of the phenomena associated with seeing evaluates how the sense of sight is a foremost component of awareness and survival, considers modern advances in microscopy and photography, and surveys the ways in which perception affects everyday life. By the author of On Being Born and Other Difficulties.