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François Brunet (Université Paris Diderot) Shane B. Lillis

The Birth of the Idea of Photography

François Brunet (Université Paris Diderot),  Shane B. Lillis

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English
Massachusetts Inst of Tec
12 November 2019
Theory of art; Photography & photographs
Series: RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
"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. This ""idea photography"" combines a logical theme-that of an art without artistry-and the democratic political promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the daguerreotype, this idea reverberated throughout the nineteenth century in Europe and America. 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 Nicephore Niepce, Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, and Henry Fox Talbot up to the turn of the twentieth century. The parallel development of the Kodak camera and Alfred Stieglitz's ""straight"" vision in the United States then fulfilled, while also depreciating, the utopian promise of photography for all. This history reached a provisional climax with the reflections on images by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Sigmund Freud, Henri-Louis Bergson, and Charles Sanders Peirce, reflections that both demonstrated the novelty of photography and forecast many later debates on its technology and aesthetics. The Birth of the Idea of Photography has been enriched with more than fifty photographs, reproduced in color, from North American and European collections. This edition also features a new preface by the author."
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Imprint:   Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 178mm, 
ISBN:   9780262043267
ISBN 10:   0262043262
Series:   RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
Pages:   304
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Francois Brunet (1960-2018) was Professor of English Studies at the Universite Paris-Diderot, France. An internationally-renowned scholar, he was an editor at History of Photography and American Art, where he was the first non-American editorial board member. Shane B. Lillis is a researcher, translator, and lecturer at the University of Nantes, France.

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