Apparitions: photography and dissemination

Abstract

An engaging and provocative account of photography's first commercial applications in England and their global implications. This book addresses a persistent gap in the study of photography's history, moving beyond an appreciation of single breakthrough works to consider the photographic image's newfound reproducibility and capacity for circulation through newsprint and other media in the nineteenth century.

Contents

Prelude -- Photography and the photographic image -- Photography and commerce -- Photography and reproduction -- Photography and The Great Exhibition -- Photography and empire -- Photography and identity -- Photography and photomechanical reproduction -- Coda -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index.