British photography in the nineteenth century : the fine art tradition
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British photography in the nineteenth century : the fine art tradition
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Available at 8 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [297]-300
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The 22 essays in this book aim to be lucid and accessible, and examine the work of 17 fine art photographers from a cultural and critical perspective. The aesthetic qualities of photographers such as Fox Talbot and Roger Fenton are examined, as is the relationship between art and science.
Table of Contents
- The camera and the other drawing machines, Doug Nickel
- Henry Fox Talbot - conversation pieces, Mike Weaver
- "Born like Minerva" - D.O.Hill and the origins of photography, Duncan Macmillan
- David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Sara Stevenson
- Calvert Richard Jones of Swansea, Rollin Buckman
- John Dillwyn Llewelyn - instantaneity and transcience, Christopher Titterrington
- Benjamim Brecknell Turner, Mark Haworth-Booth
- photography and topography - Tintern Abbey, David Harris
- Roger Fenton - landscape and still life, Mike Weaver
- O.G.Rejlander - art studies, Stephanie Spencer
- Henry Peach Robinson - the grammar of art, Margaret F.Harker
- Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden - "Studies from Life", Virginia Dodier
- Julia Margaret Cameron - the stamp of divinity, Mike Weaver
- aesthetic aspects of the photomechanical print, Anne Kelsey Hammond
- art and science in P.H.Emerson's naturalistic vision, Ellen Handy
- the correspondence between P.H.Emerson and J.Harvard Thomas, Fiona Pearson
- Emerson overturned - "On English Lagoons" and "Marsh Leaves", Ian Jeffrey
- George Davidson - impressionist and anarchist, Brian Coe
- Frederick Evans - the spiritual harmonies of architecture, Anne Kelsey Hammond
- J. Craig Annan and D.Y.Cameron in North Holland, William Buchanan
- Adolf de Meyer - "L'Apres-midi d'un faune", Michele Penhall
- Malcolm Arbuthnot - the end of pictorialism, Melinda Boyd Parsons.
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