Depth Effects Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

Reviews

"Brooke Belisle has written an intellectually ambitious, theoretically expansive, and methodologically persuasive book that not only reframes but also models the micro and macro aspects of the technologies, aesthetics, and practices of computational visual culture."—Vivian Sobchack, author of The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

"In one brilliant analysis after another, Belisle details how the computationally produced grids, portraits, and maps of contemporary technical visual culture have interposed vast new layers of racialized abstraction between embodied viewers and the world; and she reintroduces all the 'other landscapes that remain to be seen.' Required reading."—Laura Wexler, Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

"Depth Effects offers a shimmeringly prismatic look at how imaging technologies past and present—from the photographic portrait to augmented reality—render the dimensional world and reveal our vantage point within it. Belisle trains our attention on the sutured and superimposed lenses and screens through which we behold ourselves and one another."—Shannon Mattern, Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

"Depth Effects is an important book. Belisle’s scholarship is superb, her prose stylish and accessible, and her arguments offer critical resources for not only rethinking the 'photographic basis' of cinema and digital media, but also elaborating the computational."—Scott Richmond, Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto