Description:
A collection of essays investigating photography's role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.
Brief description: Nicoletta Leonardi is Professor of Art History at Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin, and the author of Il paesaggio americano dell'Ottocento: Pittori, fotografi e pubblico.
Review Quotes:
"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, one 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