| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 511 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"An October book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Images, Photographic -- History -- 19th century.
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Images, Photographic. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Photography -- History -- 19th century.
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Photography. |
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Illustrated books -- History -- 19th century.
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Illustrated books. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Armstrong, Carol M. Scenes in a library. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998 0262011697 (DLC) 98018193 (OCoLC)38989716 |
| ISBN |
0585278571 (electronic book) |
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9780585278575 (electronic book) |
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0262011697 (alkaline paper) |
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