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A History of Light: The Idea of Photography

A History of Light: The Idea of Photography - Hardcover

by Junko Theresa Mikuriya
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Availability:In StockContributor:Junko Theresa MikuriyaTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)Publish date:1/12/2017Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474254175ISBN-10:1474254179UPC:9781474254175Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, History & Surveys, MovementsBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, DeconstructionSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SC0WWMBF3M

When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or "the evoking of light". It's significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues, Iamblichus' theurgic writings, and Marsilio Ficino's texts.

This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography's ontological instability.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781474254175ISBN-10:1474254179UPC:9781474254175Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Aesthetics, History & Surveys, MovementsBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, DeconstructionSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SC0WWMBF3M
Junko Theresa Mikuriya is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the London School of Film, Media and Design, University of West London, UK. She is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Arts, University of Kent, UK.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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