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A milestone work that examines the democratic idea of photography
and its expansion in common culture, particularly in the United
States; generously illustrated. This influential text by French
historian and theorist Francois Brunet considers the invention and
history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new
type of image. This "idea photography" combines a logical
theme-that of an art without artistry-and the democratic political
promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French
law on the daguerreotype, this idea reverberated throughout the
nineteenth century in Europe and America. Brunet shows how emerging
image technologies and practices in France and Britain were linked
to this logical/political construction of photography, from the
earliest researches of Nicephore Niepce, Louis-Jacques-Mande
Daguerre, and Henry Fox Talbot up to the turn of the twentieth
century. The parallel development of the Kodak camera and Alfred
Stieglitz's "straight" vision in the United States then fulfilled,
while also depreciating, the utopian promise of photography for
all. This history reached a provisional climax with the reflections
on images by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Sigmund
Freud, Henri-Louis Bergson, and Charles Sanders Peirce, reflections
that both demonstrated the novelty of photography and forecast many
later debates on its technology and aesthetics. The Birth of the
Idea of Photography has been enriched with more than fifty
photographs, reproduced in color, from North American and European
collections. This edition also features a new preface by the
author.
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