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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; About the contributors; Introduction; PART I Rethinking first photograph(er)s; 1 A sensational story: Helmut Gernsheim and "the world's first photograph"; 2 What's wrong with Daguerre?; 3 Omphaloskeptical? On Daguerre, smoke drawing, finger painting, and photography; 4 The past through the looking glass; PART II Multiplying beginnings; 5 Origins without end; 6 Notes towards new accounts of photography's invention; 7 Against photographic exceptionalism; 8 Sacred stories: photography's indigenous origins |
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9 Seeing ourselves as others see us: Frederick Douglass's reflections on daguerreotypy and racial differencePART III Writing (trans)national histories; 10 "An American sun shines brighter," or, photography was (not) invented in the United States; 11 The Bertoloni Album: rethinking photography's national identity; 12 Photography and its Chinese origins; 13 Looking into the past and present: the origins of photography in Africa; PART IV Tracing scientific origins; 14 Self-reflections: the nature of Sir Humphry Davy's photographic "failures." |
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15 Natural/mechanical: keywords in the conception of early photography16 A note on the science of photography: reconsidering the invention story; Selected bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of 'first' photographs and proclamations of photography's death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium. Photography and Its Origins reflects on this interest in photography's beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What's at stake in choosing to tell stories of photography' |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Photography -- History
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
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Photography
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zervigon, Andres
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| ISBN |
9781317578963 |
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1317578961 |
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