@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2020.0485, TITLE={Photography – a plural innovation?}, AUTHOR={Amandine Gabriac, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={5}, NUMBER={Issue 2
}, YEAR={2020}, URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Photography-a-plural-innovation}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2020.0485}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={This article sets to one side those brilliant inventors who are commonly thought of as pioneers, in favor of a more rounded reading of the innovation of photography over the course of the 19th century. Mapping the progress of innovation (here, understood as an investigation into the mode of existence of innovation, and as a vector for the development of technical culture) is told via an in-depth study that positions inventive activity as a specific moment of the innovation process. Patents are not only useful resources for inventors; they also bear testimony to continuous growth and specific trends. The study of the professions that deal with these issues – as much as the last stage, which seems to be the promotion and the disclosure of the inventions, as a rite of passage from invention to innovation – completes the activity of invention and offers another interpretation of photography, as a plural innovation linked to various factors, actors and issues.}}