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 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