DISILLUSIONED
Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject
How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography's early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernm…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-271-06502-1
- EAN: 9780271065021
- Produktnummer: 19547556
- Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H18.3 cm x B25.6 cm x D2.3 cm 604 g
- Abbildungen: 65 Halftones, duotone
- Gewicht: 604
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Jordan Bear is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto.
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