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008 970109s1997 maua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 97004022
020 $a0262024276 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)36207601
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm36207601
035 $9AMS4189CU
035 $a(NNC)2044619
035 $a2044619
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aTR15$b.B37 1997
082 00 $a770/.9$221
100 1 $aBatchen, Geoffrey.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95036836
245 10 $aBurning with desire :$bthe conception of photography /$cGeoffrey Batchen.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bThe MIT Press,$c1997.
300 $axii, 273 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIdentity --$g2.$tConception --$g3.$tDesire --$g4.$tPictures --$g5.$tMethod.
520 $aIn an 1828 letter to his partner Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography.
520 8 $aRecent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this refiguring of the traditional story of photography's origins, Batchen examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.
520 8 $aThe result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the medium's undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.
500 $aRare Book copy: In original dust jacket.$5NNC
650 0 $aPhotography$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109260
650 0 $aPhotographic criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003955
700 1 $aKometani, Ori,$ebook designer.
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