BOOK DATA: Brooke Belisle, Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. $85 cloth; $29.95 paper and e-book. 244 pages.

Brooke Belisle’s Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation opens with the common calculation for dimensions: height x width x depth (1). Belisle uses this tripartite framework as a structural conceit to survey the history, philosophy, and aesthetics of the visual techniques that convey spatial relationships, gradually delving deeper into the spaces between the subject, object, and world. What may initially appear as a project on the evolution of the visual representation of depth from early photography to computational imaging—a call to rethink “the relationship between photographic and algorithmic techniques of mediating spatiality” (5)—shifts and expands into a philosophical inquiry into the relation between visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, and seer and seen. Belisle offers a nuanced and critical study on the philosophical...

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