Arthur Conan Doyle - Writings on Photography
Arthur Conan Doyle's literary work begins and ends with photography. At the beginning, in the 1890s, there is a cycle of a dozen essays on amateur photography, and at the end there are numerous publications on spiritualist photography and in defense of alleged fairy photographs.
Today, Conan Doyle is known only as the inventor of the character of Sherlock Holmes, who, like no other, became the symbol of detective work based on clues at the crime scene. Photography, however, is much more than just a visual way of securing evidence. This is demonstrated by Conan Doyle's wide-ranging work, in which heterogeneous and essentially mutually exclusive fields coexist like no other.
When you study his essays on photography, which are collected for the first time in this edition, you are leafing through the photographic imaginarium of the turn of the century. Conan Doyle's writings on photography are a special way of exploring the strange, foreign, but also exciting continent of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Author: Bernd Stiegler (ed.)
Number of pages: 412 pages
Published: 1st edition 2014
ISBN: 978-3-7705-5735-6
Publisher: Fink
Type: French brochure
Language: German
