A wide-ranging exploration of the complex and often conflicting discourse on photography in the nineteenth century, Framing the Victorians traces various descriptions of photography as art, science, magic, testimony, proof, document, record, illusion, and diagnosis. Victorian photography, argues Jen...

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1. Verfasser:	Green-Lewis, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Ithaca [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 1996
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1850-1900 Geschichte 1832-1902 Fotografie Letterkunde Photographie - Histoire - 19e siècle Photographie en historiographie Realisme (beeldende kunst) Geschichte Literatur Photography in historiography Photography > History > 19th century Realismus Großbritannien England
Zusammenfassung:	A wide-ranging exploration of the complex and often conflicting discourse on photography in the nineteenth century, Framing the Victorians traces various descriptions of photography as art, science, magic, testimony, proof, document, record, illusion, and diagnosis. Victorian photography, argues Jennifer Green-Lewis, inspired such universal fascination that even two so self-consciously opposed schools as positivist realism and metaphysical romance claimed it as their own. Photography thus became at once the symbol of the inadequacy of nineteenth-century empiricism and the proof of its totalizing vision Green-Lewis juxtaposes textual descriptions with pictorial representations of a diverse array of cultural activities from war and law enforcement to novel writing and psychiatry. She compares, for example, the exhibition of Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs (1855) which W.H. Russell's written accounts of the war published in the Times of London (1884 and 1886). Nineteenth-century photography, she maintains, must be reread in the context of Victorian written texts from and against which it developed
Beschreibung:	XII, 255 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0801432766