Main entry:

Bear, Jordan, author.

Title & Author:

Disillusioned : Victorian photography and the discerning subject / Jordan Bear.

Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780271065014 (cloth ; alk. paper)
027106501X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780271065021 (paperback)
0271065028 (paperback)

Subject:

Trick photography Great Britain History 19th century.
Photography Great Britain History 19th century.
Truquage (Photographie) Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Photography.
Trick photography.
Trickfotografie
Fotografi historia.
Storbritannien
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
1850-1875

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290150
Call No.: BIB 232956
Status: Available