| A History of Light: The Idea of Photography Contributor(s): Mikuriya, Junko Theresa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474254179 ISBN-13: 9781474254175 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.97 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 photographic or "the evoking of light". It's significance 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. |