{"product_id":"singular-images-failed-copies-9780816694723","title":"Singular Images Failed Copies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVered Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in early nineteenth-century England was symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSingular Images, Failed Copies\u003c\/i\u003e offers a significant contribution to the scholarship on William Henry Fox Talbot and the scientific and philosophical climate in which he produced his photographs.\"—Frederick Gross, Savannah College of Art and Design\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A striking new analysis of William Henry Fox Talbot’s famous ‘pencil of nature’ botanical photos as diagram rather than index, \u003ci\u003eSingular Images, Failed Copies\u003c\/i\u003e argues against familiar ideas of the photograph in relation to objectivity or impersonality. Vered Maimon revisits from a fresh angle questions about photography and its role in art, science, and society.\"—John Rajchman, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSingualar Images, Failed Copies \u003c\/i\u003ewill take its rightful place as an important addition to the literature on both the history of early photography. . . and the espistemological changes of the early years of the nineteenth century.\"—\u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Photographic Imagination\u003cbr\u003ePart I \u003cbr\u003e1. Method: The Engine of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e2. Imagination: The Art of Discovery\u003cbr\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003e3. Time: Singular Images, Failed Copies\u003cbr\u003e4. History: Displaced Origins and \u003ci\u003eThe Pencil of Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendixes\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866006335831,"sku":"9780816694723","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816694723.jpg?v=1722276589","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/singular-images-failed-copies-9780816694723","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}