From a photograph : authenticity, science and the periodical press, 1870-1890 /
Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a photograph affect its value as authentic or not? From a Photograph examines these questions in the light of the early...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Sect. I. Placing trust in photographs. Illustrating Victorian culture : photography and the popular press
- Illustrating nature : photography and the scientific press
- sect. II. Photographic trust in use. The pigeon, The microphotograph, and the hot air balloon : technologies of communication
- Photographing the invisible : the periodical and the reproduction of the instant
- Photography at a distance : reproducing the 874 transit of venus enterprise