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Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum - Exchanging Views of Empire (Hardcover)
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Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum - Exchanging Views of Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Science and the Arts since 1750
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The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which
momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with
the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts
of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to
being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and
the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex
relationship between natural history and photography from the 1850s
to the 1880s in Britain and its colonies: Australia, New Zealand
and, to a lesser extent, India. Coinciding with the rise of the
modern museum, photography's arrival was timely, and it rapidly
became an essential technology for recording and publicising rare
objects and valuable collections. Also during this period, the
medium assumed a more significant role in the professional
practices and reputations of naturalists than has been previously
recognized, and it figured increasingly within the expanding
specialized networks that were central to the production and
dissemination of new knowledge. In an interrogation that ranges
from the first forays into museum photography and early attempts to
document collecting expeditions to the importance of traditional
and photographic portraiture for the recognition of scientific
discoveries, this book not only recasts the parameters of what we
actually identify as natural history photography in the Victorian
era but also how we understand the very structure of empire in
relation to this genre at that time.
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