TY - BOOK ID - 77874401 TI - Scenes in a library : reading the photograph in the book, 1843-1875. PY - 1998 SN - 026229169X 0262267322 0585278571 9780585278575 0262011697 9780262291699 9780262267328 9780262011693 PB - Cambridge (Mass.) MIT press DB - UniCat KW - Images, Photographic KW - Photography KW - Illustrated books KW - Visual Arts KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Photographic images KW - Image processing KW - Imaging systems KW - Optical images KW - History KW - 655.533 KW - 77.01 KW - 77 "18" KW - 77 ATKINS, ANNA KW - 77 CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET KW - 77 FRITH, FRANCIS KW - 77 TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX KW - 77 FRITH, FRANCIS Fotografie--FRITH, FRANCIS KW - Fotografie--FRITH, FRANCIS KW - 77 CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET Fotografie--CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET KW - Fotografie--CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET KW - 77 TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX Fotografie--TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX KW - Fotografie--TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX KW - 77 "18" Fotografie--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 KW - Fotografie--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 KW - 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie KW - Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie KW - Boekillustratie KW - Fotografie--ATKINS, ANNA KW - Book history KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - 77.035 KW - CDL UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874401 AB - At the end of the 20th century we are accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album of daily newspaper - where the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. This text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph itself. It explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt photographic image, and the forty or so years during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilited to the printed page. The author's emphasis is on British books. Not only was it in an English book that the paper photograph was first described and published, but the range of subject matter of 19th-century British photographically illustrated books prior to the 1880s was as rich as it was peculiar and sometimes recalcitrant. Carol Armstrong focuses on one book about photography (Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature"); one "scientific" book (Anna Atkins' "Photographs of British Algae"); two travel narrative, one factual and one fictional (Francis Firth's "Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Observed", and his illustrated edition of Longfellow's novel "Hyperion: A Romance"); and one book of poetry (Julia Margaret Cameron's "Illustrations to Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King); as well as some miscellaneous books from the 1870s. According to Armstrong, art history has tended to remove the historic photograph from its printed and published context. Moving back and forth between close looking and equally close reading, she aims to reinsert the photograph into the book from which it was taken. ER -