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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 4 _aTR183
_b.M55 2017
100 1 _aMikuriya, Junko Theresa,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA history of light :
_bthe idea of photography /
_cJunko Theresa Mikuriya.
260 _c2017
264 1 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
_c2017.
300 _a176 pages ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 127-168) and index.
520 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.
650 0 _aPhotography
_xPhilosophy.
650 7 _aPhotography
_xPhilosophy.
_2fast
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