Mikuriya, Junko Theresa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6383-406X (2016) A history of light: the idea of photography. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK. ISBN 9781474254175

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Abstract

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”. Its 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.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	Arts > Cultural history Media > Media history and theory Media > Photography Arts Philosophy
Depositing User:	Junko Theresa Mikuriya
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2016 17:39
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2021 07:07
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3014

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