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Routledge Publishes 'Photography And Its Origins'
11 February 2015
Editors Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón have collected 16 essays in 254 pages with 32 color images to answer a few primal questions about the origins of photography.
Photography and Its Origins reflects on how and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What's at stake in choosing to tell stories of photography's genesis in one way or another? And what kind of work can those stories do?
"This much-needed volume is a triumph in more ways than one," Mirjam Brusius, Mellon post-doctoral fellow in the History of Photography, University of Oxford, said.
"Rather than merely revisiting well known origin stories and protagonists, the volume takes a critical approach to the theme itself by asking why origins matter to us. It also makes a larger point; by addressing photography's origins beyond the Western canon it finally brings places and people into the center of research that have hitherto been neglected."
Organized in four sections, the essay authors discuss subjects ranging from Daguerre to Frederick Douglass and cover Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
For more information see the news release below.
'Photography and Its Origins'
Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of first photographs and proclamations of photography's death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium.
Photography and Its Origins reflects on this interest in photography's beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What's at stake in choosing to tell stories of photography's genesis in one way or another? And what kind of work can those stories do?
Edited by Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón, this collection of 16 original essays, illustrated with 32 color images, showcases prominent and emerging voices in the field of photography studies. Their research cuts across disciplines and methodologies, shedding new light on old questions about histories and their writing.
Photography and Its Origins will serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars in art history, visual and media studies and the history of science and technology.