A milestone work that examines the democratic idea of photography and its expansion in common culture, particularly in the United States; generously illustrated.
This influential text by French historian and theorist François Brunet considers the invention and history of photography as the birth of an idea, rather than a new type of image. This “idea photography” combines a logical theme―that of an art without artistry―and the democratic political promise of an art for all. Officially endorsed by the 1839 French law on the daguerreotype, this idea reverberated throughout the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Brunet shows how emerging image technologies and practices in France and Britain were linked to this logical/political construction of photography, from the earliest researches of Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, and Henry Fox Talbot up to the turn of the twentieth century. The parallel development of the Kodak camera and Alfred Stieglitz's “straight” vision in the United States then fulfilled, while also depreciating, the utopian promise of photography for all. This history reached a provisional climax with the reflections on images by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Sigmund Freud, Henri-Louis Bergson, and Charles Sanders Peirce, reflections that both demonstrated the novelty of photography and forecast many later debates on its technology and aesthetics.
The Birth of the Idea of Photography has been enriched with more than fifty photographs, reproduced in color, from North American and European collections. This edition also features a new preface by the author.

The Birth of the Idea of Photography (RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books))

Arts & Photography

Brunet, François

History & Criticism

The MIT Press

Aspiring writers are often admonished to “show, not tell,” an instruction that immediately speaks to the relationship between the written word and the visual world. It is a tenuous correspondence—both literature and art are striving toward the same goal of depiction, but the reality they portray is shaped by their chosen tools. As François Brunet argues in Photography and Literature, the advent of photography posed one of the greatest challenges to writers—here was an artistic medium that could almost instantly distill a scene or perspective. As Brunet shows, the result of this challenge has been a fantastic interplay between the two and between photographers and writers themselves.            Photography and Literature assess the complete history of photography, and Brunet begins by examining how the invention of photography was shaped by written culture, both scientific and literary. As well, Brunet looks at the creation of the photo-book, the frequent personal discovery of photography by writers, and how photography and literature eventually began to trade tools and merge formats to create a new photo-textual genre. Highly illustrated, Photography and Literature reflects a photographer’s point of view, giving new attention to such works as the groundbreaking exploration of photography in The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot and Sophie Calle’s projects with Jean Baudrillard and Paul Auster.            Essential for anyone interested in the intersection of the verbal and the visual, Photography and Literature provides a fascinating wealth of autobiography, manifesto, and fiction as well as a variety of images from the first daguerreotypes to the digital age.

Photography and Literature (Exposures)

Photography & Video

Reaktion Books

L'ouvrage s'adresse aux anglophones comme aux francophones. Il recense l'argot d'aujourd'hui, qu'il soit britannique, français ou relève de l'anglais international (largement d'origine américaine). Il couvre le familier/populaire, mais aussi le grossier/choquant en indiquant ces registres aux lecteurs. De nombreux exemples mettent en contexte l'usage des termes présentés.    60 000 termes et expressions.Edition revue et mise à jour en 2012.

Dictionnaire Bilingue De L'Argot D'Aujourd'Hui/Bilingual Dictionary of Today's Slang

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Distribooks, Inc

La pensée juridique de... Hans Kelsen

MARE MARTIN

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