Time in a frame

Dust jacket notes: "We live in a pervasively visual age. Considering that even the early generations of this century were heavily dosed in images - illustrated newspapers, magazines, and later motion pictures - and that today television is a prime instrument in the education of youth to the 'realities' of the world. It is surprising that no more attention has been paid to the origins of our uniquely modern visual consciousness. In Time in a Frame, Alan Thomas traces the roots of that consciousness to the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century. Marveling at the unprecedented…