The birth of the idea of photography / Francois Brunet ; translated by Shane B. Lillis

Author: Brunet, François, 1960-2018
Uniform Title: Naissance de l'idée de photographie. English
Published: Toronto, Canada : RIC Books ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
Physical Description: xx, 385 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Lillis, Shane B.

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RIC books ; 3.

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Translated from French.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Inventions: The Daguerre Moment -- ch. 1 The Atechnical Image -- The Origins: A "Mystery" Induced -- The Dream and the Idea - -- The Dispositif: The Camera Obscura -- The Photochemical Sector -- Inventors and Scientists -- British Inertia? -- A Sociological Rift -- Daguerre and the Daguerreotype -- Daguerreotype and Heliography -- Daguerre's Paradoxes -- The 1838 Prospectus -- The Term Daguerreotype -- Assessment -- ch. 2 The Institution of Photography -- The Scholarly Episode -- Arago and the Academy -- The Session of January 7, 1839 -- Paris and London -- The Vocabulary of Photography -- Assessment of the Scholarly Episode -- The Daguerre Law -- The Friend of Progress -- A Chronology of 1839 -- Motivations for an Exceptional Legislative Act -- Arago's Address -- History: Magic and Positivity -- Epigraphy and Memory -- Aesthetics: "An Immense Service to the Arts" -- Technique -- Science and Semiotics -- Conclusion: Technique and Science -- The Institution of Photography: Assessment -- A Republican Toy? -- Formal Characteristics of the French Invention -- ch. 3 The Pencil of Nature -- A Private Enterprise -- French "Liberality" and British Inertia -- Talbot's Patents -- The Photographic Book: Contexts -- Technological Innovation and Rhetorical Strategy -- The Anti-Arago: The Gentleman Photographer and the Magic of Light -- Photography and Language -- The Photographic Book: Writing of the Self -- The Dutch School -- False Pretenses -- The Scene in the Library -- Virgil -- Assessment: A Precious Art? -- ch. 4 The Daguerreotype in the United States: Photography and Democracy -- The Acclimatization of the Daguerreotype in the United States -- Theory and Practice: The Tocquevillian Paradox -- Social Logic, Institutional Dynamic -- American Scholars and the Daguerreotype -- Technical Imagination at the Service of the Portrait -- The Professionalization of the Practice -- The Crystal Palace and the Apogee of the American Daguerreotype -- A Conventional Ranking -- Climatology, Technology, Aesthetics: An Unknown Art -- The Exceptional Longevity of the Daguerreotype in the United States -- The Daguerreian Republic -- The Daguerreian Myth and the Guild -- Emerson and the "True Republican Painting" -- Assessment -- pt. 2 Refoundings: The Kodak Moment -- ch. 5 The Kodak Revolution -- The Century of the Professionals -- The Professionals: An Underground Art -- Popularization and Its Early Stages -- Eastman: The Industrial Prehistory of a Commercial Concept -- The Kodak Moment -- The Word and the Thing -- The Advent of a "Middle-Brow Art" -- The "New Vision": Stieglitz -- The Sociological Reading -- A "Straight" Vision and the Kodak -- The Eastman Kodak Empire -- Selling Film -- The "Kodak King" and "Mister Smith" -- Assessment -- ch. 6 Inexact Image, Device, or Sign? Towards a Thinking about Photography -- The Science of Photography in the Nineteenth Century: Landmarks -- Technical Evolution: From Immobility to Movement -- Photographic Methodologies -- Photography as an Organizational Norm -- Photography as the Image of Science -- The Didactic Photography Paradigm and Its Evolution after 1880 -- Discursive Modalities of the Photographic Fact -- The Classic Use: The Photographic Image as Antithesis -- A New Paradigm: The Photographic Apparatus -- Critics of the Metaphor: Freud and Bergson -- Photographic Production and Kodak Pedagogy -- Photography in Peirce's Thinking -- Peirce as User of Photography -- The Example Photography: Phenomenology -- The Example Photography and the Second Semiotic Trichotomy -- The Third Trichotomy: The Photograph as Syntax -- Interpretation -- Editor's Note and Acknowledgements.

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ISBN

0262043262 hardcover
9780262043267 hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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