Item Number: 134579 Title: Photography and Its Origins Author: Sheehan, Tanya ; Andres Zervigon (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780415722896 Description: London-New York: Routledge, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 238pp. illus. Contents :Introduction Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Zervigón Part I: Rethinking first photograph(er)s 1. A Sensational Story: Helmut Gernsheim and "The World’s First Photograph" Jessica S. McDonald 2. What’s Wrong with Daguerre? Hans Rooseboom 3. Omphaloskeptical? On Daguerre, Smoke Drawing, Finger Painting, and Photography Stephen C. Pinson 4. The Past through the Looking Glass Dan Estabrook Part II: Multiplying beginnings 5. Origins without End Geoffrey Batchen 6. Notes towards New Accounts of Photography’s Invention Douglas R. Nickel 7. Against Photographic Exceptionalism Stephen Bann 8. Sacred Stories: Photography’s Indigenous Origins Heather Shannon 9. Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Frederick Douglass’s Reflections on Daguerreotypy and Racial Difference Marcy J. Dinius Part III: Writing (trans)national histories 10. "An American Sun Shines Brighter," or, Photography Was (Not) Invented in the United States FrançoisBrunet 11. The Bertoloni Album: Rethinking Photography’s National Identity Beth Saunders 12. Photography and Its Chinese Origins Yi Gu 13. Looking into the Past and Present: The Origins of Photography in Africa Jürg Schneider Part IV: Tracing scientific origins 14. Self-Reflections: The Nature of Sir Humphry Davy’s Photographic "Failures" Jordan Bear 15. Natural/Mechanical: Keywords in the Conception of Early Photography Laura Saltz 16. A Note on the Science of Photography: Reconsidering the Invention Story Kelley Wilder Selected bibliography.
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