The Ethics of Visuality looks at the key concepts of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' work and articulates his vision of 'Otherness' together with the visual tropes of the Human Face as symbolic of alterity and transcendence.
Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium, this book argues that photography has never been a single, selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship to time and to death.