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Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780271079158
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Simone Natale, Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi
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Local release date: 16/04/2018
Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
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A collection of essays investigating photography’s role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction (Nicoletta Leonardi and Simone Natale)

Part I: The Emergence of Modern Communications

1. Elephans Photographicus: Media Archaeology and the History of Photography (Erkki Huhtamo)

2. A Mirror with Wings: Photography and the New Era of Communications (Simone Natale)

3. The Traveling Daguerreotype: Early Photography and the U.S. Postal System (David M. Henkin)

4. The Telegraph of the Past: Nadar and the Time of Photography (Richard Taws)

5. With Eyes of Flesh and Glass Eyes: Railroad Image-Objects and Fantasies of Human-MachineHybridizations in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States (Nicoletta Leonardi)

Part II: Technologies of Reproduction

6. Peer Production in the Age of Collodion: The Bromide Patent and the Photographic Press, 1854–1868 (Lynn Berger)

7. Two or Three Things Photography Did to Painting (Jan von Brevern)

8. Uniqueness Multiplied: The Daguerreotype and the Visual Economy of the Graphic Arts (Steffen Siegel)

9. Photographs in Text: The Reproduction of Photographs in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Communication (Geoffrey Belknap)

Part III: Popular Cultures

10. In the Time of Balzac: The Daguerreotype and the Discovery/ Invention of Society (Peppino Ortoleva)

11. Sound Photography (Anthony Enns)

12. Photography, Cinema, and Perceptual Realism in the Nineteenth Century (Kim Timby)

13. The Double-Birth Model Tested Against Photography (Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion

Afterword: Media History and History of Photography in Parallel Lines (Geoffrey Batchen and Lisa Gitelman

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

“Provides fresh insights for the expanding potential of archival visual collections.”

—Clayton Lewis, The American Archivist

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