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Key Texts in Victorian Photography

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This series offers a collection of themed sourcebooks, curated by scholars from a variety of fields. As well as reproducing well-known texts from photography's history, each volume also introduces significant lesser-known pieces, inviting fresh discussion and new ways of thinking about photography throughout the long nineteenth century.

Groundbreaking and original introductory essays that help students make connections between photography's history and our own cultural moment
User-friendly primary texts with helpful notes and suggested reading
Innovative curating, bringing together fundamentally significant texts with the aim of supporting and inspiring new teaching and scholarly initiatives
Thematically driven selections
Re-assessment and redefinition of the growing field of interdisciplinary photographic studies

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Color and Victorian Photography

1st Edition

Edited By Lindsay Smith
May 26, 2020

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 ...