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Singular Images, Failed Copies - William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph (Paperback)
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Singular Images, Failed Copies - William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph (Paperback)
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Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and
texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox
Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the
conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major
historical change. Treating photography not merely as a medium or a
system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon
challenges today's prevalent association of the early photograph
with the camera obscura. Instead, she points to material, formal,
and conceptual differences between those two types of images by
considering the philosophical and aesthetic premises linked with
early photography. Through this analysis she argues that the
emphasis in Talbot's accounts on the removal of the "artist's hand"
in favor of "the pencil of nature" did not mark a shift from manual
to "mechanical" and more accurate or "objective" systems of
representation. In Singular Images, Failed Copies, Maimon shows
that the perception of the photographic image in the 1830s and
1840s was in fact symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological
framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and
aesthetic thought for two centuries.
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