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Burning with desire : the conception of photography
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Burning with desire : the conception of photography

by Geoffrey Batchen

This study examines the conceptual origins of photography in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It analyses the philosophical and scientific milieus preceding the medium's invention, critiquing formalist and postmodern perspectives on its identity.

Accession 25855 ISBN 0262024276 Publisher MIT Press
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