Photography and other media in the nineteenth century / edited by Nicoletta Leonardi and Simone Natale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leonardi, Nicoletta, editor.

Natale, Simone, 1981- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History--19th century.

Mass media--History--19th century.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"A collection of essays investigating photography's role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Elephans photographicus : media archaeology and the history of photography / Erkki Huhtamo

A mirrow with wings : photography and the new era of communications / Simone Natale

The traveling daguerreotype : early photography and the U.S. postal system / David M. Henkin

The telegraph of the past : Nadar and the time of photography / Richard Taws

With eyes of flesh and glass eyes : railroad image-objects and fantasies of human-machine hybridizations in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Nicoletta Leonardi

Peer production in the age of collodion : the bromide patent and the photographic press, 1854-1868 / Lynne Berger

Two or three things photography did to painting / Jan von Brevern

Uniqueness multiplied : the daguerrotype and the visual economy of the graphic arts / Steffen Siegel

Photographs in text : the reproduction of photographs in nineteenth-century scientific communication / Geoffrey Belknap

In the time of Balzac : the daguerrotype and the discovery/invention of society / Peppino Ortoleva

Sound photography / Anthony Enns

Photography, cinema, and perceptual realism in the nineteenth century / Kim Timby

The double-birth model tested against photography / Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion

Afterword : media history and history of photography in parallel lines / Geoffrey Batchen and Lisa Gitelman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-234) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271082523

0271082526

9780271082547

0271082542

OCLC:

1066251542