01883cam a2200337Ii 4500 486703 486703 ocn945647501 US-DLC 20170723104110.0 160324t20172017enk b 001 0 eng d 9781474254175 (hardback) 1474254179 (hardback) (OCoLC)945647501 (OCoLC)945390834 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA ERASA YDXCP BDX CDX OCLCF UBY ITD CHVBK OCLCO Alfaisal Main Library TR183 .M55 2017 Mikuriya, Junko Theresa, author. A history of light : the idea of photography / Junko Theresa Mikuriya. 2017 London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. 176 pages ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-168) and index. 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.--Cover page 4. Photography Philosophy. Photography Philosophy. fast local 4 Print books. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2017-07-23 5 5 TR183 .M55 2017 AU00000000010294 2019-06-30 00:00:00 2019-05-26 815.00 2017-07-23 BOOKS