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From a Photograph - Authenticity, Science and the Periodical Press, 1870-1890 (Hardcover)
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From a Photograph - Authenticity, Science and the Periodical Press, 1870-1890 (Hardcover)
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Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was
contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can
a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a photograph affect
its value as authentic or not? From a Photograph examines these
questions in the light of the early scientific periodical press,
exploring how the perceived veracity of a photograph, its use as
scientific evidence and the technologies developed for printing it
were intimately connected.Before photomechanical printing processes
became widely used in the 1890s, scientific periodicals were unable
to reproduce photographs and instead included these photographic
images as engravings, with the label ‘from a photograph’.
Consequently, every image was mediated by a human interlocutor,
introducing the potential for error and misinterpretation. Rather
than ‘reading’ photographs in the context of where or how they
were taken, this book emphasises the importance of understanding
how photographs are reproduced. It explores and compares the value
of photography as authentic proof in both popular and scientific
publications during this period of significant technological
developments and a growing readership. Three case studies
investigate different uses of photography in print: using pigeons
to transport microphotographs during the Franco-Prussian War; the
debate surrounding the development of instantaneous photography;
and finally the photographs taken of the Transit of Venus in 1874,
unseen by the human eye but captured on camera and made accessible
to the public through the periodical.Addressing a largely
overlooked area of photographic history, From a Photograph makes an
important contribution to this interdisciplinary research and will
be of interest to historians of photography, print culture and
science.
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