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A history of light : the idea of photography / Junko Theresa Mikuriya.

By: Mikuriya, Junko Theresa [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Description: 192 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474254175 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Photography -- Philosophy | Photography | PhotographyDDC classification: 770.1 Summary: If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photogogic or "the evoking of light". The significance of the photagogic throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues, Iamblichus' theurgic writings and Marsilio Ficino's texts. This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography's ontological instability.

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If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photogogic or "the evoking of light". The significance of the photagogic throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues, Iamblichus' theurgic writings and Marsilio Ficino's texts. This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography's ontological instability.

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