Free Shipping On Every Order
Rent More, Save More! Use code: KBRENTAL
5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books
A History of Light The Idea of Photography
A History of Light The Idea of Photography
- ISBN 13: 9781474254175
- ISBN 10: 1474254179
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/12/2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
List Price $130.00 Save
| TERM | PRICE | DUE |
|---|---|---|
Free Shipping Both Ways
Highlight/Take Notes Like You Own It
Purchase/Extend Before Due Date
Free Shipping On Every Order
List Price $130.00 Save $0.78
Usually Ships in 3-5 Business Days
We Buy This Book Back!
.svg "Free Shipping On Every Order"){kind=icon}
Free Shipping On Every Order
Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.
Summary
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.
