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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Main Author: Mikuriya, Junko Theresa (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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)
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
Further subjects:B Photography Philosophy
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