Scenes in a library :: reading the photograph in the book, 1843-1875 /

Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the...

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1. Verfasser: Armstrong, Carol M.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Schriftenreihe:October books.
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Zusammenfassung:Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself. In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image and the forty or so years - roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s - during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated by the printed page.
Beschreibung:"An October book."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiv, 511 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0585278571
9780585278575
026229169X
9780262291699
0262267322
9780262267328
Erscheinungsort:United States -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.

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