"Inventing the literary prehistory of photography: From François Arago to Helmut Gernsheim"

François Brunet (1)

1 LARCA UMR 8225 - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones

This paper provides an overview of a trend in photo-history that has, from 1839 to the late twentieth century, sought to uncover, or indeed to invent, literary ‘premonitions’ of the invention of photography.

Keywords: photography; literature; premonitions; François Arago; Helmut Gernsheim

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Art and art history; Humanities and Social Sciences; History; Humanities and Social Sciences; Literature; Humanities and Social Sciences; Cultural heritage and museology

François Brunet. "Inventing the literary prehistory of photography: From François Arago to Helmut Gernsheim" . History of Photography, 2010, History of Photography, 34 (2010) (4), 368-372/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2010.514808. ⟨hal-01378187⟩