1839. Daguerre, Talbot and the publication of photography (anthology).
Macula| N° d'inventaire | 23164 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 600 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782865891245 |
Although photography was not actually invented in 1839, it was in that year that it was unveiled to the public and that the discourse on photographic methods and images began to take shape. From 1839 onwards, many actors, whether scholars, journalists, artists or travellers, contributed to inventing metaphors, establishing comparisons, forging concepts and developing arguments - in short, to establishing the canons and frames of reference for the discourse on photography. Faced with the prodigious mass of material published in the years immediately following 1839, this edition presents the writings written just before 1839 or, especially, during that year. It focuses on texts that appeared in the two countries where the first photographic processes originated, France and Great Britain. Writings published in the German-speaking world and in the United States complement them, to better attest to the rapid European and soon global spread of photography and its discourse. In this anthology, the reader discovers the profusion of motives and interests, expectations and promises, hopes and fears that were attached to this new medium at the time of its revelation to the public.
Although photography was not actually invented in 1839, it was in that year that it was unveiled to the public and that the discourse on photographic methods and images began to take shape. From 1839 onwards, many actors, whether scholars, journalists, artists or travellers, contributed to inventing metaphors, establishing comparisons, forging concepts and developing arguments - in short, to establishing the canons and frames of reference for the discourse on photography. Faced with the prodigious mass of material published in the years immediately following 1839, this edition presents the writings written just before 1839 or, especially, during that year. It focuses on texts that appeared in the two countries where the first photographic processes originated, France and Great Britain. Writings published in the German-speaking world and in the United States complement them, to better attest to the rapid European and soon global spread of photography and its discourse. In this anthology, the reader discovers the profusion of motives and interests, expectations and promises, hopes and fears that were attached to this new medium at the time of its revelation to the public.