Francis Bedford Landscape Photography And Nineteenth Century British Culture

Author : Stephanie Spencer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1409408531

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Francis Bedford, Landscape Photography and Nineteenth-century British Culture by Stephanie Spencer Pdf

Focusing on one representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values. The first writing on Bedford since the 1970s, the book examines this premier photographer who was also commercially successful. Major themes include the intersection of nature and culture, the practice of nineteenth-century tourism, attitudes toward historical identity, and the formation of a national identity in England and Wales.

Author : Micheline Nilsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351556279

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Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture by Micheline Nilsen Pdf

Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism. Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early processes. During its formative decades photography responded to evolutionary cultural forces of market and artistic production. Photographs of architecture reflected a specific political or social context modulated through individual points of view. For this reason, the examination of each photographic image as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object rather than a technical milestone on a chronological trajectory affords a richer multi-faceted approach to the extensive and complex corpus of photographs taken by photographers all over the world. This project acknowledges the importance of technique in the early decades of photography but focuses on the thematic content of the material. It places the photography of architecture in an international context under the contemporary critical lens sharpened by theoretical and cultural examinations of the topic.

Author : Brian H. Murray,Mary Henes,Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137543394

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Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900 by Brian H. Murray,Mary Henes,Hughes Pdf

This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.

Author : Gordon M. Winder,Andreas Dix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317391623

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Trading Environments by Gordon M. Winder,Andreas Dix Pdf

This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature. It does so in diverse environments caught up in new trading relationships forged on and through frontiers for agriculture, forestry, mining and fishing. Historical resource frontiers are understood in terms of commercial knowledge systems organized as projects to transform landscapes and environments. The book asks: how were environments traded, and with what environmental and landscape consequences? How have environments been engineered, standardized and transformed within past trading systems? What have been the successes and failures of economic knowledge in dealing with resource production in complex environments? It considers cases from northern Europe, North and South America, Central Africa and New Zealand in the period between 1750 and 1990, and the contributors reflect on the effects of transnational commodity chains, competing economic knowledge systems, environmental ignorance and learning, and resource exploitation. In each case they identify tensions, blind spots, and environmental learning that plagued commercial projects on frontiers.

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107087484

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The Buried Life of Things by Simon Goldhill Pdf

Simon Goldhill offers a fascinating new perspective on the material culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1629 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781135873271

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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by John Hannavy Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.

Author : Ali Behdad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226356549

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Camera Orientalis by Ali Behdad Pdf

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study of this intertwined history, Camera Orientalis traces the Middle East’s influences on photography’s evolution, as well as photography’s effect on Europe’s view of “the Orient.” Considering a range of Western and Middle Eastern archival material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ali Behdad offers a rich account of how photography transformed Europe’s distinctly Orientalist vision into what seemed objective fact, a transformation that proved central to the project of European colonialism. At the same time, Orientalism was useful for photographers from both regions, as it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame exotic Middle Eastern cultures for Western audiences. Behdad also shows how Middle Eastern audiences embraced photography as a way to foreground status and patriarchal values while also exoticizing other social classes. An important examination of previously overlooked European and Middle Eastern photographers and studios, Camera Orientalis demonstrates that, far from being a one-sided European development, Orientalist photography was the product of rich cultural contact between the East and the West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UOM:39015086405498

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Endowment for the Humanities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : IND:30000121033702

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Humanities by National Endowment for the Humanities Pdf

Author : Yeshayahu Nir
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781512818260

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The Bible and the Image by Yeshayahu Nir Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : John Falconer,Louise Hide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Civilizatin--19th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions
ISBN : UCSD:31822037435567

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Points of View by John Falconer,Louise Hide Pdf

Brings together a selection of images from the British Library's collections, examining the history, diversity and influence of photography, from its invention and early years up to the growth of a popular amateur market in the early 20th century.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429761805

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Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Various Pdf

This set of 11 volumes, originally published between 1946 and 2001, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, including studies on photography, theatre, opera, and music. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of art and cultural history.

Author : American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131088911

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Annual Report by American Council of Learned Societies Pdf

Author : Jordan Bear
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : John Hannavy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1630 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781135873264

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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by John Hannavy Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.