This book addresses the advent of museum photography through an exploration of the multifaceted relationship between natural history, photography and emerging public museums from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and the colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, India.
This book addresses the advent of museum photography through an exploration of the multifaceted relationship between natural history, photography and emerging public museums from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and the colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, India.
Kathleen Davidson teaches art history at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include `Colonial Science and Photographic Portraits¿ in Judy Annear (ed.), The Photograph and Australia (AGNSW Press, 2015); `Connecting the Senses: Natural History and the British Museum in the Stereoscopic Magazine¿, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2014); `Speculative Viewing: Victorians¿ Encounters with Coral Reefs¿ in Grace Moore and Michelle Smith (eds.), Victorian Environments (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming); and `Photography and the Triumph of Science in European Vision and the South Pacific¿ in Jaynie Anderson and Christopher Marshall (eds.), The Multiple Legacies of Bernard Smith (Power Publications & AGNSW Press, 2016). Previously, she was Curator of International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia.
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Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Rethinking the Role of Photography in Victorian Natural History Emerging Sites of Production: A Comparative Approach Formative Visions of Empire Exchanging Views of Empire From `Immutable Mobiles to `Boundary Objects Making and Moving Images Peripatetic Objects of Empire and Collections at the Periphery Navigating the Archive Chapter 1 Paper Museums: Photography and Natural History at the British Museum From Institutional Priorities to Imperial Interests A Virtual Inventory of Specimens: Circulating New Knowledge and Filling in the Gaps Private Operators and Entrepreneurs Chapter 2 Museum Traffic: Naturalist Correspondents and the Advent of Photography in the Colonial Museum From German Settler to Cosmopolitan Scholar: Colonial Masculinity and the Rise of the Self-made Man Naturalist Correspondents, Photography and the Reframing of Natural History Expeditionary Photography and the `New Traveller s Tales Chapter 3 The Rhetoric of Exemplarity: Portraiture and the Naturalist as Celebrity Gentleman Amateurs and Professional Bodies: The Social Formation of Victorian Science The Naturalist Refashioned Chapter 4 Nature as Spectacle: Encountering the Moa from Christchurch to Madras via London and Paris The Origin of the Natural History Collections at the Canterbury Museum A New Era of the Museum Begins: The Debate over Order versus Spectacle Portraits and the Press: The Colonial Naturalist as Publicist Conclusion Bibliography Index
Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Rethinking the Role of Photography in Victorian Natural History Emerging Sites of Production: A Comparative Approach Formative Visions of Empire Exchanging Views of Empire From `Immutable Mobiles to `Boundary Objects Making and Moving Images Peripatetic Objects of Empire and Collections at the Periphery Navigating the Archive Chapter 1 Paper Museums: Photography and Natural History at the British Museum From Institutional Priorities to Imperial Interests A Virtual Inventory of Specimens: Circulating New Knowledge and Filling in the Gaps Private Operators and Entrepreneurs Chapter 2 Museum Traffic: Naturalist Correspondents and the Advent of Photography in the Colonial Museum From German Settler to Cosmopolitan Scholar: Colonial Masculinity and the Rise of the Self-made Man Naturalist Correspondents, Photography and the Reframing of Natural History Expeditionary Photography and the `New Traveller s Tales Chapter 3 The Rhetoric of Exemplarity: Portraiture and the Naturalist as Celebrity Gentleman Amateurs and Professional Bodies: The Social Formation of Victorian Science The Naturalist Refashioned Chapter 4 Nature as Spectacle: Encountering the Moa from Christchurch to Madras via London and Paris The Origin of the Natural History Collections at the Canterbury Museum A New Era of the Museum Begins: The Debate over Order versus Spectacle Portraits and the Press: The Colonial Naturalist as Publicist Conclusion Bibliography Index
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