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

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Armstrong, Carol M.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

xxiv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

October books

Notes:
"An October book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-497) and index.
1. Looking Forward to the 1870s: The Natural Method of Photographic Illustration -- 2. A Scene in a Library: The First Photographically Illustrated Book -- 3. Blueprints for (and against) Scientific Illustration: Anna Atkin's Botanical Albums -- 4. Photographed and Described: Traveling in the Footsteps of Francis Frith -- 5. Photographing Literature: Julia Margaret Cameron's Excerpts from Tennyson.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP15.00 0.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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 evidence of the photograph itself.
In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image and the forty or so years - roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s - during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated by the printed page.

ISBN:

0262011697 (alk. paper)
9780262011693 (alk. paper)

Subject:

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.
Illustrated books.
Images, Photographic.
Photography.
Fotografie.
Illustraties.
Boeken.
Illustrated books 19th century

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

October books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209111
Call No.: TR222 .A76 1998
Status: Available

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