[ecrea] The Miracle of Analogy, Part 1 or The History of Photography

*The Miracle of Analogy, Part 1
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*The History of Photography*

/Kaja Silverman/

   "A masterly account of how photography strengthens the binds that
connect us with others and the world, this book argues that each picture
holds within the instant of its making an opportunity to see anew the
dense and entangled relationships that ground our understanding of what
it means to be /here/."—Paul Chan, artist

    "Not simply a new counter-history, /The Miracle of Analogy/ marks a
paradigm shift after which photography will never again be thought of in
the same way. Kaja Silverman's book sets the stage for future debates
about the range of photography studies."—Natalia Brizuela, University of
California, Berkeley

    "/The Miracle of Analogy/ is a must-read. Driven by careful study of
various practitioners while masterfully juggling historical analysis
with theoretical insight, Silverman unearths a missed opportunity in
understanding what photography was, is, and will be."—Jacques Khalip,
Brown University

    "This is a lovely, intriguing book, powerfully argued, compellingly
illustrated—a major provocation. Challenging all the ways we're so used
to thinking about photography, its richly textured counter-history
invites us to rethink the very meaning of the 'analogue' in the
contemporary digital age."— Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto

/The Miracle of Analogy/ is the first of a two-volume
reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography
originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera
lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us.
Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies
would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle
obtains at every level of its being: a photograph analogizes its
referent, the negative from which it is generated, every other print
that is struck from that negative, and all of its digital "offspring."

Photography is also unstoppably developmental, both at the level of the
individual image and of medium. The photograph moves through time, in
search of other "kin," some of which may be visual, but others of which
may be literary, architectural, philosophical, or literary. Finally,
photography develops with us, and in response to us. It assumes
historically legible forms, but when we divest them of their saving
power, as we always seem to do, it goes elsewhere.

The present volume 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.

*Kaja Silverman* is Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor of
Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author,
most recently, of /Flesh of My Flesh/ (SUP, 2009).

Stanford University Press

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