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

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