TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikuriya,Junko Theresa
TI  - A history of light: the idea of photography 
SN  - 9781474254175
AV  - TR183 .M55 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Photography
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - local
KW  - Print books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-168) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -