Techniques of the Observer. On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century,reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle."
Jonathan Crary is Assistant Professor of Art History at Columbia University. He is a founding editor of Zone and Zone Books.
Jonathan Crary
Techniques of the Observer. On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century
MIT Press, 1992, 978-0262531078