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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Rethinking first photograph(er)s
• 1. sensational story: Helmut Gernsheim and "the world's first photograph" / Jessica S. McDonald
• 2. What's wrong with Daguerre? / Hans Rooseboom
• 3. Omphaloskeptical? On Daguerre, smoke drawing, finger painting, and photography / Stephen C. Pinson
• 4. past through the looking glass / Dan Estabrook
• pt. II Multiplying beginnings
• 5. Origins without end / Geoffrey Batchen
• 6. Notes towards new accounts of photography's invention / Douglas R. Nickel
• 7. Against photographic exceptionalism / Stephen Bann
• 8. Sacred stories: photography's indigenous origins / Heather A. Shannon
• 9. Seeing ourselves as others see us: Frederick Douglass's reflections on daguerreotypy and racial difference / Marcy J. Dinius
• pt. III Writing (trans)national histories
• 10. "An American sun shines brighter," or, photography was (not) invented in the United States / Francois Brunet
• 11. Bertoloni Album: rethinking photography's national identity / Beth Saunders
• 12. Photography and its Chinese origins / Yi Gu
• 13. Looking into the past and present: the origins of photography in Africa / Jurg Schneider
• pt. IV Tracing scientific origins
• 14. Self-reflections: the nature of Sir Humphry Davy's photographic "failures" / Jordan Bear
• 15. Natural/mechanical: keywords in the conception of early photography / Laura Saltz
• 16. note on the science of photography: reconsidering the invention story / Kelley Wilder.

Contributors:

Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- , editor

Zervigón, Andrés Mario , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Photography — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

TR15 .P479 2015

ISBNs:

9781317578963 (electronic bk.)
1317578961 (electronic bk.)
9780415722896 (hbk) [Invalid]
0415722896 (hbk) [Invalid]
9780415722902 (pbk) [Invalid]
041572290X (pbk) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

899003539

Other Control Numbers:

909653 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12176028