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Disillusioned : Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject /

"Examines how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. Integrates images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework by locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bear, Jordan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the history of photography and the problem of knowledge
  • See for yourself : visual discernment and photography's appearance
  • Shadowy organization : combination photography, illusion, and conspiracy
  • Same time tomorrow : serial photographs and the structure of industrial vision
  • Hand in hand : gender and collaboration in Victorian photography
  • Signature style : Francis Frith and the rise of corporate photographic authorship
  • Indistinct relics : discerning the origins of photography
  • The limits of looking : the tiny, distant, and rapid subjects of photography. Conclusion : "normal" photography : the legacy of a history.