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Disillusioned Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject
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Title
Disillusioned Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject / Jordan Bear.
ISBN
9780271089287
0271089288
027106501X
9780271065014
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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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.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2021
Contents
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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