Singular images, failed copies
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Photography--Philosophy
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Photography--Philosophy
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310111756
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126550
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133260
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134642
abstract: "Focusing on early nineteenth-century England -and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot- Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a medium or a system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon challenges today's prevalent association of the early photograph with the camera obscura. Instead, she points to material, formal, and conceptual differences between those two types of images by considering the philosophical and aesthetic premises linked with early photography. Through this analysis she argues that the emphasis in Talbot's accounts on the removal of the "artist's hand" in favor of "the pencil of nature" did not mark a shift from manual to "mechanical" and more accurate or "objective" systems of representation. In Singular Images, Failed Copies, Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in the 1830s and 1840s was in fact symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries. "--
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310182567
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Introduction: The Photographic Imagination -- Part I -- 1. Scientific Method: The Engine of Knowledge -- 2. Imagination: The Art of Discovery -- Part II -- 3. Time: Singular Images, Failed Copies -- 4. History: Displaced Origins and The Pencil of Nature
temporal coverage: 1800-1850
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301260296

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