Seeing For Others is the second book from London's Royal College of Art (RCA) Photography Department, following on from Hardcover: Image Perspectives.

Seeing For Others is a deeper look into the fascinating and ground breaking work coming from the RCA Photography Department. These innovative artworks are featured alongside visual and text-based conversations and essays from experts in the field.

A dream can be an image or a series of images that come to me. Such images have an unusal intensity. Thus starts the philosopher Alexander García Düttmann's exploration of what a dream might be. This book brings together 21 young artists who challenge each other to make visible their dreams through photography and film. The philosopher responds to the dreams and resulting images, weaving together a precise yet provocative text that opens up the relationship between images and text, dreams and pictures.

Designed by Marine Duroselle with an additional text by Olivier Richon, distinguished artist and Professor of the Photography Programme at the Royal College of Art in London and edited by the renowned photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg.

Seeing for Others will inspire anyone with an interest in photography, moving-image and contemporary art practice.

Alexander García Düttmann is a philosopher with an interest in aesthetics and art, but also in moral and political philosophy. He studied Philosophy in Frankfurt, as a student of Alfred Schmidt, a pupil of Adorno's; and in Paris as a student of Jacques Derrida. After obtaining his PhD from Frankfurt, he spent two years at Stanford University as a Mellon Fellow. Currently, he is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths (University of London). He has taught in Melbourne, at Middlesex University, where he was Professor of Philosophy for seven years, and at NYU, where he was a Visiting Professor in the autumn term of 1999. His current research is centered around the question of participation in art and politics. His next projects will be centered around the question of the contemporary in art, the relationship between photography and philosophy, and the question of immortality in contemporary philosophy.
Recent publications include Philosophy of Exaggeration (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2004; London and New York: Continuum 2007), That's How It Is. A Philosophical Commentary On Adorno's "Minima Moralia” (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2004), Erase The Traces (Berlin and Zurich: Diaphanes 2004), Visconti: Insights Into Flesh And Blood (Berlin: Kadmos 2006; Stanford: Stanford University Press 2008) and Derrida and I (Bielefeld: Transcript 2008). He lives in London, UK.
Rut Blees Luxemburg is an internationally renowned photographer, Tutor at the Royal College of Art and has previously published Hardcover: Image Perspectives and Commonsensual with Black Dog Publishing. Rut Blees Luxemburg lives in London, UK