YSDN 2102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Peter Henry Emerson, Friedrich Kittler, Louis Daguerre
19 Oct 2017
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Mechanizing the movement - development in photography and mourning in the. Argues that we fetisize photographs by posesing them and that we have a fixation on representations outside of ourselves. Having a photo of someone is possessing them. Re-evaluates photography as manual craft processes that might rediscover modern authenticity of experience and memory. Critiques the medium by arguing we comotify the photographs. Critiques photography questions the commodification and commercial value of the photograph. How do people live on in the memory of a photograph. His photography early examples of promoting photography as an art form. Known for photos with natural settings and disputes with photographic establishment about purpose and meaning of photography. Theorised there was natural energetic transference between all animated and inanimate objects, later referred to as mesmerism. 1816 first one to capture photographic image (nature view from his window) Called images retinas - experimented with different products. Could only have one copy of an image.
