History of Light

When was photography invented in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or the evoking of light+?. It's significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic Dialogues Iamblichus' theurgic writings and Marsilio Ficino's texts. <br/><br/>This alternative history is not a replacement of other narratives of photographic history but rather offers a way of rethinking photography's ontological instability.