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Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography

Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography

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In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual ...

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Product ID:	9780262522595
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Burning with Desire
Title:	Burning with Desire
Subtitle:	The Conception of Photography
Authors:	Author: Geoffrey Batchen
Page Count:	286
Subjects:	History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Photography and photographs, Photography & photographs
Description:	In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography''s identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography''s conception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the medium''s undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.
Imprint Name:	MIT Press
Publisher Name:	MIT Press Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1999-03-15

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Weight	586 g
Dimensions	229 × 191 × 16 mm

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