Abstract
Introduction: Mapping Photography in French and Francophone Cultures
Highlights
MAPPING THE PLACE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CULTURES KATHRIN YACAVONEPhotography as a visual medium of socio-cultural and artistic expression is the product, from a historical point of view, of primarily scientific advancements in the fields of optics and chemistry culminating in the mid-nineteenth century
In itself a mute medium,[2] photography may be seen to lack one of the most significant markers according to which national cultures and traditions are often identified and
James Elkins has attempted to describe photography as completely detached from any discourse traditionally attached to it, see What Photography Is (New York and London: Routledge, 2011)
Summary
MAPPING THE PLACE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CULTURES KATHRIN YACAVONEPhotography as a visual medium of socio-cultural and artistic expression is the product, from a historical point of view, of primarily scientific advancements in the fields of optics and chemistry culminating in the mid-nineteenth century. This classical, albeit cursory, account of the emergence and rapid spread of photographic images and the medium more generally goes hand in hand with perennial questions as to photography’s disciplinary and discursive belonging, especially when compared to more established disciplines and discourses of visual art forms such as painting, for example.
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