Author: Armstrong, Carol
Title: Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875
Description: Camabridge, MA, The M.I.T. Press / October, 1998. Hardcover. Black & yellow dustjacket w/ black printing; black cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing; xxiv, 511 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself. In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image and the forty or so years - roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s - during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated by the printed page.-- DJ. VG (Scuffs & scratches to cloth; shelf-wear to DJ surface, edges & corners; interior is in excellent condition; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: Photography, Book Photography, 19th Century Photography, Photographic History ; Photographic History ; ;


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