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Book SynopsisJuliet Hacking is Subject Leader for Photographic Studies at Sotheby's Institute of Art, UK.
Joanne Lukitsh is Professor of History of Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA.
Trade ReviewBy placing nineteenth-century photography into rich dialogue not only with fine art but with other disciplines, this welcome volume provides thought-provoking readings of both familiar and overlooked images with an attentiveness to the material properties of photographic objects. * Elizabeth Siegel, Curator of Photography and Media, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA *
This innovative volume presents photographic history in all its wonderful, controversial diversity. The essays open onto myriad forms of art-making, illuminating crucial debates in nineteenth-century aesthetics. The book’s introduction offers an indispensable historiography of the subject. Photography and the Arts makes a valuable contribution to the art history of photography. * Rachel Teukolsky, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA *
The reader comes away from the texts with a number of useful insights. Images and—more specifically—objects presented through the category of art did not just make beauty and philosophy possible in a medium closely associated with the mechanical and the functional. Beauty, in other words, often served—intentionally or not—as a fig leaf in photographs with other agendas seemingly well outside the realm of art. Establishing this fact, along with making fundamental additions to our historical knowledge of photography, represents the volume’s primary contribution. * Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide *
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION
Juliet Hacking and Joanne Lukitsh PART ONE: THE ARTS OF REPRODUCTION 1. A Bug for Photography? Hippolyte Fizeau’s Photographic Engraving and other Media of Reproduction
Stephen C. Pinson 2. Casting History: The role of photography and Plaster Casting in the Creation of a Colonial Archive
Sarah Victoria Turner 3. Modernising the Victorian: Readings of the Photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron, 1886 to 1914
Joanne Lukitsh PART TWO: PHOTOGRAPHY & AESTHETICS 4. The Photographic and the Picturesque: The Aesthetic and Chemical Foundations of Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard’s Activities
Herta Wolf 5. Picturesque Conflict: Photography and the Aesthetics of Violence in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Sean Willcock 6. Sun-struck: Elizabeth Rigby (Eastlake) and the Sun’s ‘Earnest Gaze’ in Calotypes by Hill and Adamson
Lindsay Smith 7. ‘Carlyle like a Rough Block of Michelangelo’s’: Thinking Photography through Sculpture in Julia Margaret Cameron’s Portraits
Patrizia di Bello PART THREE: PHOTOGRAPHY & PAINTING 8. Art, Reproduction and Reportage: Roger Fenton’s Crimean Photographs
Sophie Gordon 9. Impressionism in Photography
Hope Kingsley PART FOUR: ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY 10. ‘The Poetical Talents of Our Artists’: American Narrative Daguerreotypes
Diane Waggoner 11. ‘Radically Vicious’: Henry Peach Robinson, Alfred Henry Wall and the Critical Reception of Composition Photography 1859-63
Juliet Hacking 12. From ‘Studies from Nature’ to ‘Studies for Painting’: Julia Margaret Cameron in the South Kensington Museum
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