Darwin's camera : art and photography in the theory of evolution / Phillip Prodger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prodger, Phillip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Illustrations.

Darwin, Charles.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Art collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first photographically illustrated science book ever published. Using photographs to depict fleeting expressions of emotion--laughter, crying, anger, and so on--as they flit across a person's face, he managed to produce dramatic images at a time when photography was famously slow and awkward. The book desc

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Timeline; Contents; Preface; Photographic plates from Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872); Introduction; 1. Darwin's Art Collection; 2. Illustration and Illusion; 3. Art, Experience, and Observation; 4. Darwin and the Passions; 5. Photography and Evolution Meet; 6. Method to Their Madness; 7. Laughing and Crying; 8. Darwin's Eyes and Ears; 9. Darwin's Art Photographer; 10. Rejlander's Performances; 11. Alice, Eugenics, and the Spirit World; Appendix: "Odd Odds and Ends" by Oscar Rejlander; Notes; Selected Bibliography

AcknowledgmentsIndex; Picture Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988216-9

1-282-38054-0

9786612380549

0-19-972230-7

OCLC:

551192729