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Darwin's camera : art and photography in the theory of evolution /
Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Darwin's art collection : the prints, drawings, and photographs Darwin collected in the 1860s and 70s
- Illustrations and illusion : strategies Darwin used in illustrating his books
- Art, experience, and observation : Darwin's knowledge of art history and use of illustration in his books
- Darwin and the passions : how passion manuals informed Darwin's research
- Photography and evolution meet : connections between photography and biology in the 1860s
- Method to their madness : how photography in mental hospitals influenced Darwin
- Laughing and crying : Darwin's quest for pictures of expressive babies
- Darwin's eyes and ears : the artists who guided Darwin's search for pictures
- Darwin's art photographer : Oscar Rejlander, Darwin's favorite photographer
- Rejlander's performances : posing for Darwin's pictures
- Alice, eugenics, and the spirit world : the aftermath of Darwin's experiments.