Photography, allegory, labor

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Routledge ebooks , 2020

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 2023

Review of this important anthology on 19th-century photography.

Penn State University Press, 2018

“This groundbreaking volume embodies a major shift in the historiography of photography. These first-rate contributions bring to bear the intellectual resources of the numerous disciplines that must inform the holistic study of photography in the future. Taken together, a new approach emerges, in which photography's status as a medium is not taken for granted, and in which its boundaries are defined dynamically by its interactions with other forms of representation and communication in the nineteenth century.” —Jordan Bear, author of Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject “This timely and refreshing book challenges the introspective ‘media exceptionalism’ that often accompanies photographic studies. Instead it places photography firmly within the broad field of cultures of communicative technology, from the telegraph to postal systems, enriching the understanding of all these entangled practices.” —Elizabeth Edwards, author of The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918