Birth of the Idea of Photography
Birth of the Idea of Photography A milestone work that examines the democratic idea of photography and its expansion in common culture, particularly in the United States; generously illustrated.This…
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Birth of the Idea of Photography
A milestone work that examines the democratic idea of photography and its expansion in common culture, particularly in the United States; generously illustrated.This influential text by French historian and theorist Fran ois Brunet considers the invention and history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new type of image. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the daguerreotype, this idea reverberated throughout the nineteenth century in Europe and America. This "idea photography" combines a logical theme--that of an art without artistry--and the democratic political promise of an art for all.
Brunet shows how emerging image technologies and practices in France and Britain were linked to this logical/political construction of photography, from the earliest researches of Nic phore Ni pce, Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre, and Henry Fox Talbot up to the turn