Free shipping on orders over 19,990 Ft via Packeta, Fox Post Box, and DPD Collection Point

Check order status

Become part of a community of book lovers from all over the world and get access to a whole bunch of benefits. Create an account for free

Free delivery for purchases over 19 990 Ft

DPD point 990 Ft DPD courier 1 190 Ft GLS point 1 190 Ft Hungarian Post 1 795 Ft Hungarian Post 1 690 Ft Hungarian Post 1 690 Ft FoxPost 1 190 Ft Packeta point 1 190 Ft GLS courier 1 690 Ft

Contact

How to shop

Help

My account

▸ Empty :-(

Free shipping on orders over 19,990 Ft via Packeta, Fox Post Box, and DPD Collection Point

Burning with Desire

Name: Burning with Desire
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
SKU: 04397529
Price: 22428 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Geoffrey (Victoria University) Batchen
ISBN: 9780262522595

Geoffrey (Victoria University) Batchen

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04397529

Publishers MIT Press Ltd, March 1999

In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicphore Nipce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to... Full description

Libristo code: 04397529

149 b

22 428 Ft

50 % chance We search the world When will I receive my book?

Up to 30 days for returns

Customers also purchased

Photography Degree Zero Geoffrey Batchen

Paperback

19 754 Ft

Miracle of Analogy Kaja Silverman

Paperback

11 695 Ft

Philosophy in Cultural Theory Peter Osborne

Paperback

30 113 Ft

Piranesi. The Complete Etchings Luigi Ficacci

Hardback

28 354 Ft

Apparitions: Photography And Dissemination Geoffrey Batchen

Hardback

16 113 Ft

Retrofieber Sören Kohlhuber

Paperback

5 803 Ft

WITKIN Witkin

Hardback

28 008 Ft

STONE BLIND - Der Blick der Medusa Natalie Haynes

Hardback

8 585 Ft

Brambory Redakce časopisu Apetit

Hardback

7 770 Ft

Traktory Obrazová encyklopédia pre malých aj veľkých

Hardback

6 210 Ft

In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicphore Nipce, 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 eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the mediums undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.