01702cam a2200289Ii 4500001001300000003000700013005001700020008004100037020003000078020002700108035003900135040008200174050002100256100003800277245007700315260000900392264008300401300002400484336002700508337002900535338002800564504006700592520066500659650002901324650003501353655002401388ocn945647501US-DLC20170723104110.0160324t20172017enk      b    001 0 eng d  a9781474254175q(hardback)  z1474254179q(hardback)  a(OCoLC)945647501z(OCoLC)945390834  aBTCTAbengerdacBTCTAdERASAdYDXCPdBDXdCDXdOCLCFdUBYdITDdCHVBKdOCLCO 4aTR183b.M55 20171 aMikuriya, Junko Theresa,eauthor.12aA history of light :bthe idea of photography /cJunko Theresa Mikuriya.  c2017 1aLondon :bBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2017.  a176 pages ;c25 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent.  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia.  avolumebnc2rdacarrier.  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 127-168) and index.8 aWhen 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.--Cover page 4. 0aPhotographyxPhilosophy. 7aPhotographyxPhilosophy.2fast 02localaPrint books.