In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine
photography’s vital role in the evolution of media and
communication in the nineteenth century. In the first half of the
nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development
of a cheaper and more reliable postal service, the rise of the
mass-circulation press, and the emergence of the railway
dramatically changed the way people communicated and experienced
time and space. Concurrently, photography developed as a medium
that changed how images were produced and circulated. Yet, for the
most part, photography of the era is studied outside the field of
media history. The contributors to this volume challenge those
established disciplinary boundaries as they programmatically
explore the intersections of photography and “new media” during
a period of fast-paced change. Their essays look at the emergence
and early history of photography in the context of broader changes
in the history of communications; the role of the nascent
photographic press in photography’s infancy; and the development
of photographic techniques as part of a broader media culture that
included the mass-consumed novel, sound recording, and cinema.
Featuring essays by noteworthy historians in photography and media
history, this discipline-shifting examination of the communication
revolution of the nineteenth century is an essential addition to
the field of media studies. In addition to the editors,
contributors to this volume are Geoffrey Batchen, Geoffrey Belknap,
Lynn Berger, Jan von Brevern, Anthony Enns, André Gaudreault, Lisa
Gitelman, David Henkin, Erkki Huhtamo, Philippe Marion, Peppino
Ortoleva, Steffen Siegel, Richard Taws, and Kim Timby.
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