Color And Victorian Photography

Author : Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000185027

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Color and Victorian Photography by Lindsay Smith Pdf

Nineteenth-century photography is usually thought of in terms of ‘black and white’ images, but intense experimentation with generating and fixing colors pre-dated the public announcement of the daguerreotype in 1839. Introducing readers to the long, frequently overlooked story of the relationship of color to photography, this short anthology of primary sources includes: accounts of the scientific search for color by Elizabeth Fulhame and Sir John Herschel;photographers' views on color; extracts from the photographic press and from manuals on handcoloring; and accounts by critics such as John Ruskin. The volume provides a fresh perspective on the culture, history and theory of early photography, demonstrating why scientists, philosophers, photographers, literary writers and artists were so fascinated by the potential for polychrome in photographs. With an introductory essay arguing that from the earliest days of photography the prospect of color loomed large in the imagination of its creators, users and critics, this reader is an essential resource for students and scholars wanting to gain a full understanding of nineteenth-century photography and its relationship to art history, literature and culture.

Author : Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000181845

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Color and Victorian Photography by Lindsay Smith Pdf

Nineteenth-century photography is usually thought of in terms of ‘black and white’ images, but intense experimentation with generating and fixing colors pre-dated the public announcement of the daguerreotype in 1839. Introducing readers to the long, frequently overlooked story of the relationship of color to photography, this short anthology of primary sources includes: accounts of the scientific search for color by Elizabeth Fulhame and Sir John Herschel;photographers' views on color; extracts from the photographic press and from manuals on handcoloring; and accounts by critics such as John Ruskin. The volume provides a fresh perspective on the culture, history and theory of early photography, demonstrating why scientists, philosophers, photographers, literary writers and artists were so fascinated by the potential for polychrome in photographs. With an introductory essay arguing that from the earliest days of photography the prospect of color loomed large in the imagination of its creators, users and critics, this reader is an essential resource for students and scholars wanting to gain a full understanding of nineteenth-century photography and its relationship to art history, literature and culture.

Author : Elizabeth Heyert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Photography
ISBN : UIUC:30112088944142

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The Glass-house Years by Elizabeth Heyert Pdf

This is a book about the fist thirty years of portrait photography in Great Britain, and its purpose is to put this aspect of photography into the context of history. It is a social history rather than a technical one, and the subjects of the book are the photographers, their sitters, and their critics.

Author : B. E. C. Howarth-Loomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Photography
ISBN : PSU:000016674998

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Victorian Photography by B. E. C. Howarth-Loomes Pdf

Author : Anne M. Lyden
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606061558

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A Royal Passion by Anne M. Lyden Pdf

In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marked the beginnings of a relationship that continued throughout the nineteenth century and helped construct the image of an entire age. A Royal Passion explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria’s embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens. Together with Prince Albert, her beloved husband, the Queen amassed one of the earliest collections of photographs, including works by renowned photographers such as Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Victoria was also the first British monarch to have her life recorded by the camera: images of her as wife, mother, widow, and empress proliferated around the world at a time when the British Empire spanned the globe. The featured essays consider Victoria’s role in shaping the history of photography as well as photography’s role in shaping the image of the Queen. Including more than 150 color images—several rarely seen before—drawn from the Royal Collection and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 4 to June 20, 2014.

Author : Jordan Bear
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780271089287

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Disillusioned by Jordan Bear Pdf

How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography’s early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernment—of telling the real from the constructed—became an increasingly crucial element of one’s location in cultural, political, and social relations. In Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject, Jordan Bear tells the story of how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. By locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception employed by the leading mid-century photographers within this capacious culture of discernment, Disillusioned integrates some of the most striking—and puzzling—images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework.

Author : Juliet Hacking,Joanne Lukitsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781350048546

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Photography and the Arts by Juliet Hacking,Joanne Lukitsh Pdf

Photography, both in the form of contemporary practice and that of historical material, now occupies a significant place in the citadels of Western art culture. It has an institutional network of its own, embedded within the broader art world, with its own specialists including academics, critics, curators, collectors, dealers and conservators. All of this cultural activity consolidates an artistic practice and critical discourse of photography that distinguishes what is increasingly termed 'art photography' from its commercial, scientific and amateur guises. But this long-awaited recognition of photography as high art brings new challenges. How will photography's newly privileged place in the art world affect how the history of creative photography is written? Modernist claims for the medium as having an aesthetic often turned on precedents from painting. Postmodernism challenged a cultural hierarchy organized around painting. Nineteenth-century photographs move between the symbolic spaces of the gallery wall and the archive: de-contextualised for art and re-contextualised for history. But what of the contemporary writings, images, and practices that negotiated an aesthetic status for 'the photographic'? Photography and the Arts revisits practices both celebrated and elided by the modernist and postmodernist grand narratives of art and photographic history in order to open up new critical spaces. Written by leading scholars in the fields of photography, art and literature, the essays examine the metaphorical as well as the material exchanges between photography and the fine, graphic, reproductive and sculptural arts.

Author : Victoria Mills,Kate Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315400242

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Victorian Material Culture by Victoria Mills,Kate Nichols Pdf

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This volume on ‘Victorian Arts’ will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained glass.

Author : PatriziaDi Bello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351536448

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Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England by PatriziaDi Bello Pdf

This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of individual women, and the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying imagesare examined, uncovering the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals, and demonstrating the way albums and photography, itself, were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. It is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.

Author : Shawn Michelle Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822333430

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Photography on the Color Line by Shawn Michelle Smith Pdf

DIVAn exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900./div

Author : Jennifer Green-Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000211481

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Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory by Jennifer Green-Lewis Pdf

Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, photography not only changed the way the Victorians saw the world, but also provided them with a new sense of connection with the past and a developing language with which to describe it. Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors, cultural critics, photographers, and novelists, Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come –including our own. In addition to being invaluable for scholars working within the emerging field of research at the intersection of photographic and literary studies, this book will also be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist literature, visual culture and intellectual history.

Author : Alison Gernsheim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780486319131

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Victorian and Edwardian Fashion by Alison Gernsheim Pdf

Bonnets, capes, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 to 1914. More than 200 photos depict aristocrats and members of the middle class as well as celebrities.

Author : Jordan Bear
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780271089263

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Disillusioned by Jordan Bear Pdf

How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography’s early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernment—of telling the real from the constructed—became an increasingly crucial element of one’s location in cultural, political, and social relations. In Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject, Jordan Bear tells the story of how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. By locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception employed by the leading mid-century photographers within this capacious culture of discernment, Disillusioned integrates some of the most striking—and puzzling—images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework.

Author : Grace Seiberling,Carolyn Bloore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226744981

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Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination by Grace Seiberling,Carolyn Bloore Pdf

"This book results from research which was begun with all the casualness, but inherent seriousness, of the nineteenth-century amateur. I had the privilege of frequent access to the archives of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and began to go through the nineteenth-century photographs in a systematic way. I wanted to go beyond the clichés of the history of photography as a series of often-reproduced masterworks and to find out something about the history of seeing, or at least of thinking about, images in the nineteenth century."--Préface.

Author : J. Cat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137338310

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Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography by J. Cat Pdf

This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy.