TY  - GEN
  - Sabine Kriebel
  - 2014 Unknown
  - Companion to Photography
  - Histories of Photography
  - Blackwell
  - Massachusetts, USA
  - In Press
  - 1
  - As a medium of illusions embedded in a discourse of authenticity, objectivity, and truth-telling, the photograph’s history is characterized by a curious set of repressions, willful occlusions, and select trajectories to fulfill the cultural imperatives of a particular historical moment. In certain instances, photography is a magical technical device that reveals unconscious drives and desires with poetic precision; in others, photography is a mechanical medium of scientific observation and recording with dubious artistic merit. This chapter will chart the development of thought about photography and its evolution in the twentieth century, scrutinizing select but prominent accounts of the history of photography, from Walter Benjamin’s 1931 “Little History of Photography” to present day overviews such as Lev Manovich’s analysis of analogue and digital continuities. The chapter maps the critical emphases of photographic history over time, attending in particular to the variously waxing or waning critical emphases on photography’s material qualities, technological evolution, its authenticity and its chimeras, its politics, aesthetic status and capacities for mass production, replication, and circulation. 
  - Stephen Bull
DA  - 2014 Unknown/NaN
ER  - 

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   = {2014 Unknown},
   = {Companion to Photography},
   = {Histories of Photography},
   = {{Blackwell}},
   = {Massachusetts, USA},
   = {In Press},
   = {1},
   = {{As a medium of illusions embedded in a discourse of authenticity, objectivity, and truth-telling, the photograph’s history is characterized by a curious set of repressions, willful occlusions, and select trajectories to fulfill the cultural imperatives of a particular historical moment. In certain instances, photography is a magical technical device that reveals unconscious drives and desires with poetic precision; in others, photography is a mechanical medium of scientific observation and recording with dubious artistic merit. This chapter will chart the development of thought about photography and its evolution in the twentieth century, scrutinizing select but prominent accounts of the history of photography, from Walter Benjamin’s 1931 “Little History of Photography” to present day overviews such as Lev Manovich’s analysis of analogue and digital continuities. The chapter maps the critical emphases of photographic history over time, attending in particular to the variously waxing or waning critical emphases on photography’s material qualities, technological evolution, its authenticity and its chimeras, its politics, aesthetic status and capacities for mass production, replication, and circulation. }},
   = {Stephen Bull },
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