Camera Archaeologia: A Media Archaeological Investigation into the Contemporary Use of Nineteenth-Century Photographic Processes.
As digital technologies determine the practice and experience of everyday life today, the earliest photochemical processes resurface to provide stimulating and provocative modes for visual production. Around the world, a small but attention-worthy number of photographers attempt to rediscover what n...
| Publicado en: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 38; pp. 1 - 22 |
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2025
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