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The miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography, Part I
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ISBN: 9780804793278 9780804793995 0804793271 0804793999 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, California Stanford University Press

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Volume one focuses on the nineteenth century and some of its contemporary progeny. It begins with the camera obscura, which morphed into chemical photography and lives on in digital form, and ends with Walter Benjamin. Key figures discussed along the way include Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre, William Fox-Talbot, Jeff Wall, and Joan Fontcuberta.


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The miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography.
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ISBN: 0804794006 9780804794008 9780804793278 9780804793995 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, California

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The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle obtains at every level of its being: a photograph analogizes its referent, the negative from which it is generated, every other print that is struck from that negative, and all of its digital ""
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Photography --- History.

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