Title & Author:

Photography and its origins / edited by Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Description:

xv, 237 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I. Rethinking first photograph(er)s -- 1. A sensational story: Helmut Gernsheim and "the world's first photograph" -- 2. What's wrong with Daguerre? -- 3. Omphaloskeptical? On Daguerre, smoke drawing, finger painting, and photography -- 4. The past through the looking glass -- PART II. Multiplying beginnings -- 5. Origins without end -- 6. Notes towards new accounts of photography's invention -- 7. Against photographic exceptionalism -- 8. Sacred stories: photography's indigenous origins -- 9. Seeing ourselves as others see us: Frederick Douglass's reflections on daguerreotypy and racial difference -- PART III. Writing (trans)national histories -- 10. "An American sun shines brighter," or, photography was (not) invented in the United States -- 11. The Bertoloni Album: rethinking photography's national identity -- 12. Photography and its Chinese origins -- 13. Looking into the past and present: the origins of photography in Africa -- PART IV. Tracing scientific origins -- 14. Self-reflections: the nature of Sir Humphry Davy's photographic "failures" -- 15. Natural/mechanical: keywords in the conception of early photography -- 16. A note on the science of photography: reconsidering the invention story.
A sensational story : Helmut Gernsheim and "the world's first photograph" / Jessica S. McDonald -- What's wrong with Daguerre? / Hans Rooseboom -- Omphaloskeptical? : on Daguerre, smoke drawing, finger painting, and photography / Stephen C. Pinson -- The past through the looking glass / Dan Estabrook -- Origins without end / Geoffrey Batchen -- Notes towards new accounts of photography's invention / Douglas R. Nickel -- Against photographic exceptionalism / Stephen Bann -- Sacred stories : photography's indigenous origins / Heather A. Shannon -- Seeing ourselves as others see us : Frederick Douglass's reflections on daguerreotypy and racial difference / Marcy J. Dinius -- An American sun shines brighter," or, photography was (not) invented in the United States / François Brunet -- The Bertoloni album : rethinking photography's national identity / Beth Saunders -- Photography and its Chinese origins / Yi Gu -- Looking into the past and present : the origins of photography in Africa / Jürg Schneider -- Self-reflections : the nature of Sir Humphry Davy's photographic "failures" / Jordan Bear -- Natural/mechanical : keywords in the conception of early photography / Laura Saltz -- A note on the science of photography : reconsidering the invention story / Kelley Wilder.

Summary:

Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of 'first' photographs and proclamations of photography's death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium. Photography and Its Origins reflects on this interest in photography's beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What's at stake in choosing to tell stories of photography'

ISBN:

9780415722896 (hbk.)
0415722896 (hbk.)
9780415722902 (pbk.)
041572290X (pbk.)
(ebk)
9781315740096

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography
Fotografie
Fotografi historia.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- editor.
Zervigón, Andrés Mario, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290626
Call No.: BIB 233758
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available