A History of Light: The Idea of Photography Kindle Edition
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| Management number | 221758436 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | US$17.26 | Model Number | 221758436 | ||
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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. Read more
| XRay | Not Enabled |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1474254205 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Language | English |
| File size | 1.0 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 187 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | December 15, 2016 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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