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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mikuriya, Junko Theresa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

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 "the evoking of light". The significance of the photagogic 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.--Cover page 4.

Contents:

1 Plato's Allegorical Camera-cave 11

2 Plato's Chora and the Uneasy Place of Photography 33

3 Iamblichuss Receptacle of Light 57

4 Photographing the Divine: Philotheos of Batos 83

5 Marsilio Ficino: Light and Photosensitivity 95 Coda 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-168) and index.

ISBN:

9781474254175

1474254179

OCLC:

945647501