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Burning with desire : the conception of photography
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Burning with desire : the conception of photography

by Geoffrey Batchen

This study analyses the desire to photograph as it emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It examines the work of early pioneers and critiques contemporary theories of the medium's identity through post-structuralist historical criticism.

Accession 31834 ISBN 9780262522594 Publisher MIT Press
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