A
history of light
the idea of photography
Mikuriya, Junko Theresa
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text
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Print books.
enk
2017
2017
monographic
eng
176 pages ; 25 cm.
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.
Junko Theresa Mikuriya.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-168) and index.
Photography
Philosophy
Photography
Philosophy
TR183 .M55 2017
9781474254175
BTCTA
160324
20170723104110.0
ocn945647501
eng