First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography - Couverture souple

Siegel, Steffen

 
9781606065242: First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1606065246 ISBN 13 : 9781606065242
Editeur : Getty Publications, 2017

Synopsis

An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the "first" year of photography, not because the sensational new medium was invented then, but because that is the year it was introduced to the world.

After more than 175 years, and for the first time in English, First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography brings together more than 130 primary sources from that very year--1839--subdivided into ten chapters and accompanied by fifty-three images of significant visual and historical importance.

This is an astonishing work of discovery, selection, and--thanks to Steffen Siegel's introductory texts, notes, and afterword--elucidation. The range of material is impressive: not only all the chemical and technological details of the various processes but also contracts, speeches, correspondence of every kind, arguments, parodies, satires, eulogies, denunciations, journals, and even some poems.

Revealing through firsthand accounts the competition, the rivalries, and the parallels among the various practitioners and theorists, this book provides an unprecedented way to understand how the early discourse around photographic techniques and processes transcended national boundaries and interconnected across Europe and the United States.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steffen Siegel is professor of theory and history of photography at Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany.

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Éditeur
Getty Publications
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1606065246
ISBN 13 
9781606065242
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
520
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Personne responsable
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