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Disillusioned : Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject /
How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography's early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The History of Photography and the Problem of Knowledge
- One See for Yourself: Visual Discernment and Photography's Appearance
- Two Shadowy Organization: Combination Photography, Illusion, and Conspiracy
- Three Same Time Tomorrow: Serial Photographs and the Structure of Industrial Vision
- Four Hand in Hand: Gender and Collaboration in Victorian Photography
- Five Signature Style: Francis Frith and the Rise of Corporate Photographic Authorship
- Six Indistinct Relics: Discerning the Origins of Photography
- Seven The Limits of Looking: The Tiny, Distant, and Rapid Subjects of Photography
- Conclusion: "Normal" Photography: The Legacy of a History
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index