In History, the Future: Determinism in the Early History of Photography in France

Technological determinism and media specificity have profoundly shaped the history of photography—two strands of thought inherited from nineteenth century predecessors. Media archaeological approaches—while not always explicitly and perhaps, as Thomas Elsaesser has recently suggested, rather as symp...

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Main Author: Emily Doucet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries 2018-10-01
Series:communication +1
Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol7/iss1/4/