The naming of photography: a mass of metaphor'
The naming of photography: a mass of metaphor'
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摄影的命名：大量的隐喻”
DOI：
10.1080/03087298.1993.10442589
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发表时间：
1993
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0.2
通讯作者：
G. Batchen
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作者：
G. Batchen
抽象摄影现在似乎是一个如此自然的词来描述它所指的过程，以至于我们往往忘记了这个过程的命名在1839年之前的几年里是一个激烈的辩论问题。事实上，摄影的先驱们对这种媒介的命名和它的发明表现出了几乎同样的兴趣，几乎所有的人都提出了一个或多个可能的名称。考虑到当时对语言的重视，我们有理由认为，为他们的发明选择名字都代表了他们对摄影及其特征的总体想法。在许多情况下，这个词实际上出现在发明之前，或者至少在发明完全投入使用之前。因此，这个名字的选择与其说反映了摄影是什么，不如说反映了摄影可能是什么。它用一个词概括了摄影的理念，以及促使每一位不同发明者进行实验的欲望和抱负。摄影命名的历史代表着……
Abstract Photography now seems so natural a word for the process to which it refers that we tend to forget that the naming of this process was a matter of intense debate during the years leading up to 1839. Indeed photography's pioneers showed almost as much interest in the medium's nomenclature as in its invention, and almost all of them proposed one or more possible names. Given the importance attached to language at the time, it is reasonable to assume that the choice of name for their inventions was in each case indicative of their general thinking about photography and its character. In many cases the word actually came before the invention, or at least before the invention was fully operational. The choice of name therefore reflected not so much what photography was as what photography might be. It was a one-word summation of the idea of photography, and of the desires and aspirations that induced each of its various inventors to undertake their experiments. A history of photography's naming represe...