A History of Light: The Idea of Photography

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 ôthe evoking of lightö. 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.

• | Author: Junko Theresa Mikuriya
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Sep 27, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1350084573
• | ISBN-13: 9781350084575