The Miracle of Analogy: Or the History of Photography, Part 1

by Kaja Silverman

Book Overview

The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle obtains at every level of its being: a photograph...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804793999
• ISBN13: 9780804793995
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.9"