- Paperback
286 pages
- Release Date
15 March 1999
Summary
In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, “I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature.” In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography’s identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental char…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262522595 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262522594 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Batchen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 286 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 191mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Burning with Desire |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“Given its ambitious and groundbreaking scope, Burning withDesire is bound to become the touchstone for any furtherconsideration of the topic of photography’s invention.” Douglas R. Nickel , Assistant Curator of Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
About The Author
Geoffrey Batchen
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Burning with Desire- The Conceptions of Photography (1999) and Each Wild Idea- Writing, Photography, History (2002), both published by the MIT Press.
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