The miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography

Abstract

Volume one focuses on the nineteenth century and some of its contemporary progeny. It begins with the camera obscura, which morphed into chemical photography and lives on in digital form, and ends with Walter Benjamin. Key figures discussed along the way include Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre, William Fox-Talbot, Jeff Wall, and Joan Fontcuberta.

Contents

Pt. 1. The second coming ; Unstoppable development ; Water in the camera ; A kind of republic ; Je vous ; Posthumous presence.