Painting With Fire - Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, Temporally Evolving Chemical

Informationen zum Autor Matthew C. Hunter is associate professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is coeditor of Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science and The Clever Object and an editor of Grey Room . In 2016, he received the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize. Klappentext "This book does nothing less than revise the history of photography in its incipient moments. It tells a story of radical chemical experiments at the London academies, and he traces how some of the most exciting reproductive techniques and patents of the late eighteenth century fared during the nineteenth, when entrepreneurs tried to refine them into alternative technologies to photography"-- Zusammenfassung "This book does nothing less than revise the history of photography in its incipient moments. It tells a story of radical chemical experiments at the London academies, and he traces how some of the most exciting reproductive techniques and patents of the late eighteenth century fared during the nineteenth, when entrepreneurs tried to refine them into alternative technologies to photography"--

Product details

• Authors: Matthew C Hunter, Matthew C. Hunter, Matthew C Hunter
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780226390253
• ISBN: 978-0-226-39025-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, Painting & paintings, History of engineering & technology, Photography and photographs, Paintings and painting