Photography and the printed page in the nineteenth century : an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, 27 November 2000 to 31 March 2001.
01/01/2000 00:00:00 University of OxfordDescription: 54 p ; 21 x 21 cmISBN:- 9781851240661
- 1851240667
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Pamphlet | CGLAS Library Pamphlets - Ask at Library desk | Purple | 770.903 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Pamphlets are reference only - NOT FOR LOAN | 12069 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 27 November 2000 - 31 March 2001.
Includes bibliographical references
The pencil of nature : the first book published in this country to be illustrated with original photographs -- The earliest appearance of the photography on the printed page -- From unique image to multiple copies : transferring the daguerreotype onto the printed page in France -- The sitter as hero : the portrait multiplied in nineteenth-century Britain -- The Art-union : bringing art and photography to a wider audience -- The transition of the photographically illustrated book from exclusivity to mass-popularity -- The stereoscopic image : the world seen in depth -- The Empire and beyond : recording the past and the present in the mid-nineteenth century -- Italy and the onset of mass tourism : packaging the past for the present -- The nineteenth-century mind : its myriad professions, pursuits, and passions -- Capturing the spirit to gilding the lily : portraiture and illustration in mid-Victorian prose and poetry -- Photography as truth : the significance of the facsimile as an aid to scholarship and enquiry -- The darkroom opened : early photographic treatises and the response to the new art of photography -- Facing the music : the alliance between photography and the musical stave -- From gentleman amateurs to dedicated professionals : photography comes of age -- Their heads in the clouds : early aerial photography in Paris.