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Burning with desire : the conception of photography / Geoffrey Batchen

This study examines the conceptual origins of photography in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It analyses the philosophical and scientific milieus preceding the medium's invention, critiquing formalist and postmodern perspectives on its identity.

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