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Tristan and Isolde

Author: Richard Wagner
Year: 1865 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

What rock music seems to offer (and indeed what Wagnerian opera offered to the nineteenth century German audiences, or flute music in the Lydian mode to Plato's Greeks) is pure experience, pure authenticity, real in a sense that the listener's perception cannot itself be deceived.

Source type: picture
Info: 3-dimensional model by Angelo Quaglio for the set in act 3 at the premiere production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde on 10 June 1865 in Munich
Original size: 1683x1226 px. Edit
File type: video
Info: 1928. Tristan und Isolde: Act I excerpts - Graarud, Larsén-Todsen (Elmendorff, Bayreuth)
Original Url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAchzUNrH0w
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View from the Window at Le Gras

Author: Nicéphore Niépce
Year: 1826 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

Photography provides an important example of the social debate that can surround the logics of immediacy and hypermediacy. When Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot, and others claimed immediacy for their new medium, they were seeking to control its social construction. A long and complicated debate followed, with important figures such as Baudelaire arguing in opposition, but in general the case for immediacy succeeded, and Western societies accepted the idea that a photograph truly captures the world.

Source type: picture
Info: View from the Window at Le Gras / Nicéphore Niépce / 1826
Original size: 2597x1805 px. Edit

L’Atelier de l'artiste

Author: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Year: 1837 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

Photography provides an important example of the social debate that can surround the logics of immediacy and hypermediacy. When Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot, and others claimed immediacy for their new medium, they were seeking to control its social construction. A long and complicated debate followed, with important figures such as Baudelaire arguing in opposition, but in general the case for immediacy succeeded, and Western societies accepted the idea that a photograph truly captures the world.

Source type: picture
Info: L’Atelier de l'artiste / Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre - 1837
Original size: 1000x728 px. Edit

Latticed window at Lacock Abbey

Author: Henry Fox Talbot
Year: 1835 Edit Add
Book: Remediation

Photography provides an important example of the social debate that can surround the logics of immediacy and hypermediacy. When Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot, and others claimed immediacy for their new medium, they were seeking to control its social construction. A long and complicated debate followed, with important figures such as Baudelaire arguing in opposition, but in general the case for immediacy succeeded, and Western societies accepted the idea that a photograph truly captures the world.

Source type: picture
Info: Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835. A positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.
Original size: 489x638 px. Edit