Key Texts in Victorian Photography
About the Book Series
This series offers a collection of themed sourcebooks, curated by scholars from a variety of fields. As well as reproducing well-known texts from photography's history, each volume also introduces significant lesser-known pieces, inviting fresh discussion and new ways of thinking about photography throughout the long nineteenth century.
- Groundbreaking and original introductory essays that help students make connections between photography's history and our own cultural moment
- User-friendly primary texts with helpful notes and suggested reading
- Innovative curating, bringing together fundamentally significant texts with the aim of supporting and inspiring new teaching and scholarly initiatives
- Thematically driven selections
- Re-assessment and redefinition of the growing field of interdisciplinary photographic studies
Color and Victorian Photography
1st Edition
Edited
By Lindsay Smith
May 26, 2020
Nineteenth-century photography is usually thought of in terms of ‘black and white’ images, but intense experimentation with generating and fixing colors pre-dated the public announcement of the daguerreotype in 1839. Introducing readers to the long, frequently overlooked story of the relationship ...