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La photographie en France : textes et controverses : une anthologie : 1816-1871
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ISBN: 286589021X 9782865890217 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : Macula,

Photography and its critics : a cultural history, 1839-1900
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ISBN: 0521550432 9780521550437 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York ; Cambridge, UK ; Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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Photography and its Critics offers an original overview of nineteenth-century American and European writing about photography from such disparate fields as art theory, social reform, and physiology. In this study, Mary Warner Marien argues that photography was an important social and cultural symbol for modernity and change in several fields, such as art and social reform. Moreover, she demonstrates how photography quickly emerged as a pliant symbol for modernity and change, one that could as easily oppose progress as promote democracy.

Burning with desire : the conception of photography.
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ISBN: 0262024276 9780262024273 9780262522595 0262522594 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT,

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In an 1828 letter to his partner Nicephore Niepce, 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. In this refiguring of the traditional story of photography's origins, Batchen 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.

The beautiful and the Damned : the creation of identity in nineteenth century photography : [published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at the National Portrait Gallery, 6 June - 7 October 2001]
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ISBN: 0853318212 1855143097 9781855143098 9780853318217 Year: 2001 Publisher: Aldershot Burlington Lund Humphries


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Photography : the origins 1839-1890.
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ISBN: 9788857207186 9788857210322 9788857215082 9788857220543 8857210324 8857215083 8857220540 8857207188 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milano Skira

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This history of photography which, marking an ideal continuity with the Art of the 20th century series, will be able to respond to the needs for correct information to a general public and supply more specialized investigation of the medium. The first volume (1839 - 1890) of the History of Photography series considers the years of the invention of photography and those immediately following.


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WeltAnsichten : Illustrationen von Forschungsreisen deutscher Geographen im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert : Graphik. Malerei. Photographie. Die Wirklichkeit der Illustration ?
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ISBN: 9783931596583 3931596583 Year: 2011 Volume: 21 Publisher: Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln,

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