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The photographic experience, 1839-1914 : images and attitudes /

Eighteen thirty-nine was the miraculous year in which the two principal inventors of photography - Daguerre in France and Fox Talbot in Great Britain - made their discoveries known to an eager and receptive public. News of the process flashed around the globe, and in no time, enthusiastic pioneers f...

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Main Authors: Henisch, Heinz K., (Author), Henisch, Bridget Ann, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1994]
Subjects and Genres:
Photography > History.
Portrait photography > History.
Photographie > Histoire.
Portraits (Photographie) > Histoire.
Portrait photography.
Photography.
Fotografie
Fotografie.
Geschichte 1839-1914.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A new invention
  • A new word
  • Photographist in charge
  • The iconographer
  • Master of make-believe
  • The magician
  • The memory-maker
  • Sidelights
  • Culinary dimensions
  • Fashion in focus
  • Fictions and fancies
  • Musical moments
  • Mixed media
  • The engraver
  • The retoucher
  • The overpainter
  • Other links
  • Setting and frame
  • Cases of character
  • Presentation, private and public
  • Under cover
  • Family milestones
  • For love's sake
  • Landmarks
  • 'Til death do us part
  • The heliographer's arms
  • Age-old words and symbols
  • Foreign approaches
  • Cosmic purity and hi-tech
  • Double-dipping
  • Playing the public
  • Securing the shadow
  • Advertising and publicity
  • Catching the eye
  • The cult of celebrity
  • Humor
  • Magic, old and new
  • Contraptions, infernal
  • Vanity, oh vanity
  • Harebrained genius and flirtatious fringe
  • The worm turns
  • Camera in court
  • Opening skirmishes
  • Forensic focus
  • The impressionable eye
  • Plagiarism, pretensions, and pretense
  • Photographs as corpora delicti and evidence
  • The photographically illustrated book
  • The versatile medium
  • Books of distinction ; examples of choice
  • Politics on a plate
  • Business as usual
  • The establishment
  • The challengers
  • Shades of opinion
  • The cutting edge
  • The camera at war
  • The military response
  • Civilian cameramen
  • Portraits
  • Views
  • On the sidelines
  • The molding of minds
  • Photography and travel
  • Rail, steam, and lens
  • Pleasing prospects
  • The photographer in place
  • The peripatetic camera
  • The amateur's adventures
  • Armchair travels
  • The trivialization of travel
  • Photography in the writer's world
  • First impressions
  • Second thoughts
  • Before and behind the camera
  • In the study.

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