Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography
- ISBN13: 9780262522595
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“Given its ambitious and groundbreaking scope, Burning with Desire is bound to become the touchstone for any further consideration of the topic of photography’s invention.” — Douglas R. Nickel, Assistant Curator of Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, 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. Recent 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 centurie… More >>
