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A History of Light
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A History of Light : The Idea of Photography

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1350084573
ISBN-13 9781350084575
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 18th, 2018
Print length 192 Pages
Weight 298 grams
Dimensions 15.60 x 23.30 x 1.90 cms
Ksh 7,150.00
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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.

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.


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