Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century /

Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century / / ed. by Simone Natale, Nicoletta Leonardi.

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In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography's vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development of a cheaper and more reliable postal ser...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Batchen, Geoffrey,
Brevern, Jan von,
Enns, Anthony,
Gaudreault, André,
Gitelman, Lisa,
Henkin, David M.,
Huhtamo, Erkki,
Leonardi, Nicoletta,
Marion, Philippe,
Natale, Simone,
Ortoleva, Peppino,
Siegel, Steffen,
Taws, Richard,
Timby, Kim,
HerausgeberIn:
Leonardi, Nicoletta,
Natale, Simone,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2018
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 41 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Emergence of Modern Communications
  • 1. Elephans Photographicus. Media Archaeology and the History of Photography
  • 2. A Mirror with Wings. Photography and the New Era of Communications
  • 3. The Traveling Daguerreotype. Early Photography and the U.S. Postal System
  • 4. The Telegraph of the Past. Nadar and the Time of Photography
  • 5. With Eyes of Flesh and Glass Eyes. Railroad Image-Objects and Fantasies of Human-Machine Hybridizations in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States
  • Part II Technologies of Reproduction
  • 6. Peer Production in the Age of Collodion. The Bromide Patent and the Photographic Press, 1854-1868
  • 7. Two or Three Things Photography Did to Painting
  • 8. Uniqueness Multiplied. The Daguerreotype and the Visual Economy of the Graphic Arts
  • 9. Photographs in Text. The Reproduction of Photographs in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Communication
  • Part III Popular Cultures
  • 10. In the Time of Balzac. The Daguerreotype and the Discovery/Invention of Society
  • 11. Sound Photography
  • 12. Photography, Cinema, and Perceptual Realism in the Nineteenth Century
  • 13. The Double-Birth Model Tested Against Photography
  • Afterword. Media History and History of Photography in Parallel Lines
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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