Geoffrey Belknap

From a Photograph

Authenticity, Science and the Periodical Press, 1870-1890

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781350141339
• ISBN-10: 135014133X
• Artikelnr.: 56928681

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Belknap is a post-doctoral research fellow on the 'Constructing Scientific Communities' project at the University of Leicester, UK, and a research fellow at the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research in the Natural History Museum in London, UK. He is a co-editor of Volume 9 of the John Tyndall Correspondence Project (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionSection I: Placing Trust In PhotographsChapter 1 - Illustrating
Victorian Culture: Photography and the Popular PressChapter 2 -
Illustrating Nature: Photography and the Scientific PressSection II:
Photographic Trust in UseChapter 3 - The Pigeon, The Microphotograph and
the Hot Air Balloon: Technologies of CommunicationChapter 4 - Photographing
the Invisible: The Periodical and the Reproduction of the InstantChapter 5
- Photography at a Distance: Reproducing the 1874 Transit of Venus
EnterpriseConclusion BibliographyIndex