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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed this book quite a lot..must buy to have close to me always..<br/><br/>&quot;Photography as such has no identity. Its status as a technology varies with the power relations which invest it. Its nature as a practice depends on the institutions and agents which define it and set it to work. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42430327">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not just a book on photography's invention. It does not discuss the importance of who invented what first but rather who was moving in what direction in order to invent photography and why it was happening. Why did society demand for the photographic image?]]></body>
    
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