9780271065021 - Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject by Bear, Jordan (10 results)
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Paperback. Pap. 8vo. 198 pp., illus. Minor shelf-wear, else a bright, clean copy.
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Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 2016
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photographys early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosop…hical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernmentof telling the real from the constructedbecame an increasingly crucial element of ones location in cultural, political, and social relations. In Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject, Jordan Bear tells the story of how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. By locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception employed by the leading mid-century photographers within this capacious culture of discernment, Disillusioned integrates some of the most strikingand puzzlingimages of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework. Examines how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. Integrates images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework by locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Pennsylvania State University Press Sep 2016, 2016
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography's early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philoso…phical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliability of their own visual experiences. Photography resided at the center of a constellation of places and practices in which the task of visual discernment¿of telling the real from the constructed¿became an increasingly crucial element of one's location in cultural, political, and social relations. In Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject, Jordan Bear tells the story of how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. By locating specific mechanisms of photographic deception employed by the leading mid-century photographers within this capacious culture of discernment, Disillusioned integrates some of the most striking¿and puzzling¿images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework.
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publ, 2016
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Examines how photographic trickery in the 1850s and 1860s participated in the fashioning of the modern subject. Integrates images of the Victorian period into a new and expansive interpretive framework by locating specific mechanisms of photographic decepti.
