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Photography and its origins / edited by Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015Description: xv, 237 pages : illustrations (color); 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780415722902 (pbk)
- 041572290X (pbk)
- 9780415722896 (hbk)
- 0415722896 (hbk)
- TR15 .P479 2015
Contents:
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 -- 9. Seeing ourselves as others see us: Frederick Douglass's reflections on daguerreotypy and racial difference -- PART 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" -- 15. Natural/mechanical: keywords in the conception of early photography -- 16. A note on the science of photography: reconsidering the invention story.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | TR 15 .P479 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5123500 |
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| TR 15 .M27 2012 100 ideas that changed photography / | TR 15 .M273 2002 Photography : a cultural history / | TR 15 .N47 2006 The history of photography : from 1839 to the present, completely revised and enlarge edition / | TR 15 .P479 2015 Photography and its origins / | TR 23 .A63 1998 American Photography 14 / | TR 23 .F55 2003 Picturing poverty : print culture and FSA photographs / | TR 23 .H35 1995 An American century of photography : from dry-plate to digital / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 9. Seeing ourselves as others see us: Frederick Douglass's reflections on daguerreotypy and racial difference -- PART 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" -- 15. Natural/mechanical: keywords in the conception of early photography -- 16. A note on the science of photography: reconsidering the invention story.
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