Scenes in a library : reading the photograph in the book, 1843-1875 /

Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Armstrong, Carol M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Series:October books.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Images, Photographic > History > 19th century.
Photography > History > 19th century.
Illustrated books > History > 19th century.
Images photographiques > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Photographie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Livres illustrés > Histoire > 19e siècle.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
PHOTOGRAPHY > History.
Illustrated books.
Images, Photographic.
Photography.
Fotografie.
Illustraties.
Boeken.
Visual Arts.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Looking forward to the 1870s: the natural method of photographic illustration
  • A scene in a library: the first photographically illustrated book
  • Blueprints for (and against) scientific illustration: Anna Atkin's botanical albums
  • Photographed and described: traveling in the footsteps of Francis Frith
  • Photographing literature: Julia Margaret Cameron's excerpts from Tennyson.

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