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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | October books.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=24378 |
Table of Contents:
- Looking forward to the 1870s: the natural method of photographic illustration
- A scene in a library: the first photographically illustrated book
- Blueprints for (and against) scientific illustration: Anna Atkin's botanical albums
- Photographed and described: traveling in the footsteps of Francis Frith
- Photographing literature: Julia Margaret Cameron's excerpts from Tennyson.