A History of Light
Subtitle: The Idea of Photography
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 12, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781474254175
Description: "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 photogogic or "the evoking of light". The significance of the photagogic throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues, Iamblichus' theurgic writings, Marsilio Ficino's texts and the works of Renaissance magus John Dee. This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography's ontological instability."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: A History of Light: The Idea of Photography