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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 eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this refiguring of the traditional story of photography's origins, Batchen 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 medium's undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.

Critique photographique. --- Fotografie. --- Fotografía --- Ontstaansgeschiedenis. --- Photographic criticism. --- Photographie --- Photography --- Histoire. --- History. --- Criticism, photographic --- Critique photographique --- Fotografische kritiek --- Photography -- criticism --- Geoffrey Batchen --- Niépce Nicéphore --- Daguerre Louis --- fotografische theorie --- fotografie en kunst --- fotografie en schilderkunst --- Photographic criticism --- CDL --- 77.01 --- History --- Photography criticism --- Criticism --- 77 "18" --- fotografie --- negentiende eeuw --- camera obscura --- daguerreotypie --- 77.035 --- 77 "18" Fotografie--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Fotografie--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Photography - History

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fotografie --- Talbot, William Henry Fox --- Photography, Artistic --- Photography --- 77.071 TALBOT --- Groot-Brittannië --- negentiende eeuw --- Talbot William Henry Fox --- Artistic photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- History --- Aesthetics --- Talbot, William Henry Fox, --- Talbot, Fox, --- Talbot, H. Fox --- Talbot, Henry Fox, --- Fox Talbot, William Henry, --- Talbot, Vilʹi︠a︡m Genri Foks, --- Talbot, William Henry Fox.

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Photography --- photography [process]

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"As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keïta, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from the business practices of professional photographers to the repetition of pose and setting that is so central to certain familiar photographic genres. Ranging from the daguerreotype to the digital image, the end result is a kind of little history of photography, partial and episodic, but no less significant a rendition of the photographic experience for being so. This book represents a summation of Batchen's work to date, making it be essential reading for students and scholars of photography and for all those interested in the history of the medium"--

Photography --- History.

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Photography, Artistic