A history of light: the idea of photography
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 photogogic or "the ev...
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | A History of Light: The Idea of Photography, Junko Theresa Mikuriya, Bloomsbury, 2017 (ISBN 978-1-4742-5417-5), x + 178 pp., hb £85 (2018) (Laberge, Yves)
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| Edition: | First published |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Photography
/ Philosophy
/ Light
B Plato 427 BC-347 BC B Iamblichus, Chalcidensis 250-325 B Ficinus, Marsilius 1433-1499 |
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Photography
Philosophy
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| Summary: | 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 photogogic or "the evoking of light". The significance of the photagogic 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.-- Plato's Allegorical Camera-cave -- Plato's Chora and the Uneasy Place of Photography -- Iamblichus's Receptacle of Light -- Photographing the Divine: Philotheos of Batos -- Marsilio Ficino: Light and Photosensitivity |
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| ISBN: | 1474254179 |