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Disillusioned : Victorian photography and the discerning subject / Jordan Bear.
LIBRA TR148 .B43 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bear, Jordan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trick photography--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Trick photography.
- Photography--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Photography.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271065014
- 027106501X
- OCLC:
- 895500643
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