02642cam a2200289 i 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002300085100002700108245010500135300001900240500007400259505036500333505001700698518001500715520119400730600005101924650003701975650003502012650006202047650003702109900001402146942001302160999001902173952016002192150511s2015    mnua     b   s001 0 eng    a9780816694716  a9780816694723  aSDU00aTR183bM223 S 20151 aMaimon, Vered,922016410aSingular images, failed copies :bWilliam Henry Fox Talbot and the early photograph /cVered Maimon.  a269 p. :bill.  aOutgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Columbia University, 2006).0 aIntroduction : The Photographic Imagination -- British Science and the Conception of Photography. Scientific Method : The Engine of Knowledge -- Imagination : The Art of Discovery -- Botanical Images and Historical Documents : The First Applications of Photography. Time : Singular Images, Failed Copies -- History : Displaced Origins and The Pencil of Nature.0 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M10  a"Focusing on early nineteenth-century England-and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot-Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a medium or a system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon challenges today's prevalent association of the early photograph with the camera obscura. Instead, she points to material, formal, and conceptual differences between those two types of images by considering the philosophical and aesthetic premises linked with early photography. Through this analysis she argues that the emphasis in Talbot's accounts on the removal of the "artist's hand" in favor of "the pencil of nature" did not mark a shift from manual to "mechanical" and more accurate or "objective" systems of representation.In Singular Images, Failed Copies, Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in the 1830s and 1840s was in fact symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries. "--10aTalbot, William Henry Fox,d1800-1877.9220165 0aPhotographyxPhilosophy.9205740 7aPHOTOGRAPHY / History.9209762 7aPHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General.9220166 7aPHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism.9220167  a= C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c112730d112730  00102lcc406TR0183 M223 S2015708CGB9285274aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-10-27e2l0oTR183 M223 S 2015p1000362618r2025-10-27 00:00:00tC.1w2025-10-27yGBE