Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography

by Geoffrey Batchen

Book Overview

In an 1828 letter to his partner, 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 preceeded 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262024276
• ISBN13: 9780262024273
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 9.4"