Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875

Abstract

Part 1 Looking forward to the 1870s - the natural method of photographic illustration: the book of nature, the book of man the conduct of this verification - succession and resemblance, or induction and the organon of proof from microbes to the moon - experiments, instruments and photographs, 1 from the moon to man - experiments, instruments and photographs, 2. Part 2 A scene in a library - the first photographically illustrated book: introductory remarks - and brief historical sketch of the invention of the art plates - a scene in a library plates, 1 - two views through the camera obscura plates, 2 - two inventories plates, 3 - facsimiles plates, 4 -cameraless photographers plates, 5 - photographs like paintings plates, 6 - Lacock Abbey and other places plates, the end -variable prints. Part 3 Blueprints for (and against) scientific illustration - Anna Atkins's botanical albums: biotaxic negatives - a photographic botany between the certificate and the code -from the natural illustration to the nature print the remains of a ruined alliance - the rest of the cyanotypes. Part 4 Photographed and described - travelling in the footsteps of Francis Frith: Egypt and Palestine photographed and described the footsteps of Paul Flemming. Part 5 Photographing literature -Julia Margaret Cameron's excerpts from Tennyson: the album's frontispiece - the photographer takes the poet, From Life Cameron's women - Lynette, Enid, Vivien and Elaine the pale nun and the dark queen the end - a filmic postscript.

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