The miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography. Part 1 / Kaja Silverman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Kaja, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

<div><i>The Miracle of Analogy</i> is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle obtains at every level of its being: a photograph analogizes its referent, the negative from which it is generated, every other print that is struck from that negative, and all of its digital ""

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Second Coming; 2. Unstoppable Development; 3. Water in the Camera; 4. A Kind of Republic; 5. Je Vous; 6. Posthumous Presence; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Complete in two volumes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804794008

0804794006

OCLC:

1198929768