A history of light : the idea of photography

A history of light : the idea of photography / Junko Theresa Mikuriya.

"When was photography invented? In 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photogogic or "...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mikuriya, Junko Theresa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Subjects:
Ficinus, Marsilius > 1433-1499
Iamblichus > Chalcidensis > 250-325
Plato > v427-v347
Photography.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
Photography
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Plato's Allegorical Camera-cave
  • 2. Plato's Chora and the Uneasy Place of Photography
  • 3. Iamblichus's Receptacle of Light
  • 4. Photographing the Divine: Philotheos of Batos
  • 5. Marsilio Ficino: Light and Photosensitivity.

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