The miracle of analogy or, The history of photography/

Silverman, Kaja,

The miracle of analogy or, The history of photography/ Miracle of analogy History of photography part 1 Kaja Silverman. - c2015. - volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Complete in two volumes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.

v. 1. Introduction -- The second coming -- Unstoppable development -- Water in the camera -- A kind of republic -- Je vous -- Posthumous presence

Volume one focuses on the nineteenth century and some of its contemporary progeny. It begins with the camera obscura, which morphed into chemical photography and lives on in digital form, and ends with Walter Benjamin. Key figures discussed along the way include Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre, William Fox-Talbot, Jeff Wall, and Joan Fontcuberta

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Photography--History.

TR15 / .S49 2015