A History of Light

The Idea of Photography

Junko Theresa Mikuriya (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-5417-5 (ISBN)

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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 photographic or “the evoking of light”. It’s significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues, Iamblichus’ theurgic writings, and Marsilio Ficino’s texts.

This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography’s ontological instability.

Junko Theresa Mikuriya is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the London School of Film, Media and Design, University of West London, UK. She is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Arts, University of Kent, UK.

Acknowledgements
Notes on References

Introduction
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
Coda

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.12.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4742-5417-9 / 1474254179
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-5417-5 / 9781474254175
Zustand	Neuware