The Transition of the Image: From Renaissance Perspective to Generative AI
How has the use and the perception of the image changed across history? If during the Renaissance the painting was understood as a window to the world, today in 2025 we are surrounded by generative images that no longer depend on an external referent but on algorithms and data sets. Between those two extremes, the […]
The Civil Contract of Photography
A reading of Ariella Azoulay – The Civil Contract Part I. From technical image to civic scene Ariella Azoulay argues that every photograph opens a civil relation among three figures who owe something to one another the maker the person who appears and the viewer. She calls this […]
Thomas Nail and the Image in Motion: A Kinetic Philosophy of the Visual
At a time when digital images multiply endlessly and their circulation exceeds our ability to absorb them, philosopher Thomas Nail offers a radical idea: images are not static objects or mere representations—they are material processes in motion. In his book Theory of the Image (2019), Nail develops a kinetic philosophy that rethinks the visual from […]
What Do We Really See When We Look at an Image? A New Theory of Perspective Perception
In his article Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures (2024), Aaron Hertzmann offers a radically fresh take on how we perceive three-dimensional space in pictures. Contrary to traditional theories that assume a coherent, linear perspective from a single point of view, Hertzmann argues that there is no single perspective in how we actually […]