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Burning with Desire
Geoffrey Batchen
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Description for Burning with Desire
Paperback. In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Num Pages: 286 pages, 30. BIC Classification: AC; AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 191 x 16. Weight in Grams: 570.
In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature. In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late ... Read more
In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicephore Niepce, Louis Daguerre wrote, I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature. In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262522595
SKU
V9780262522595
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About Geoffrey Batchen
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Burning with Desire: The Conceptions of Photography (1999) and Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History (2002), both published by the MIT Press.
Reviews for Burning with Desire
Given its ambitious and groundbreaking scope, Burning withDesire is bound to become the touchstone for any furtherconsideration of the topic of photography's invention. Douglas R. Nickel , Assistant Curator of Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art