UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification 2021/22 Winter
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Bill presented to the Chamber of Deputies, France, June 15, 1839.
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "The Image of Objectivity," Representations 40 (1992): 81-128.
Further resources:
Daguerre's description of his work (1839). [German translation] [Polish translation] [Hungarian translation of a German version]
Jimena Canales, “Photogenic Venus: The ‘Cinematographic Turn’ and Its Alternatives in Nineteenth‐Century France” Isis 93 (2002): 585–613.(Image from an 1865 Hungarian account of photography)