Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of first photographs and proclamations of photography s death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium.
"Photography and Its Origins" reflects on this interest in photography s beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What s at stake in choosing to tell stories of...
Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of first photographs and...
Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding light on non-Western, vernacular, and "other" photographic practices outside the Euro-American canon. Photography, History, Difference brings together an international group of scholars to reflect on contemporary efforts to take a different approach to photography and its histories. What are the benefits and challenges of writing a consolidated, global history of photography? How do they compare with those of producing more circumscribed...
Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding ...
