Scenes in a library : reading the photograph in the book, 1843-1875 /
Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1998.
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| Edice: | October books.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=24378 |
| Shrnutí: | Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself. In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image and the forty or so years - roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s - during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated by the printed page. |
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| Popis jednotky: | "An October book." |
| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 511 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585278571 9780585278575 026229169X 9780262291699 0262267322 9780262267328 0262011697 9780262011693 |
| Místo vydání: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. |