Bender / Simonsen Photography’s Materialities

Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6166-376-4
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Extensive variety of material approaches to the study
of photography and photographic practices

There is little dispute that photography is a material
practice, and that the photograph itself is ineluctably material. And yet
“matter,” “material,” and “materiality” have proven to be remarkably elusive
terms of inquiry, frequently producing studies that are disparate in scope,
sharing seemingly little common ground. Although the wide methodological range
of materialist study can be dizzying, it is this book’s contention that that
multiplicity is also the field’s greatest asset, keeping materialist inquiry
enduringly vibrant—provided that varying methods are in close enough proximity
to converse. Photography’s
Materialities orchestrates one such conversation. Juxtaposing the insights
of theorists like Lacan, Benjamin, and Latour beside close studies of crime,
spirit, and composite photography, among others, this collection aims for a
productive synergy, one capacious enough to span transatlantic spaces over the
long nineteenth century.

Contributors: Kris Belden-Adams (University of
Mississippi), Maura Coughlin (Bryant University), David LaRocca (independent
scholar), Jacob W. Lewis (University of Rochester), Mary Marchand (Goucher
College), Zachary Tavlin (Art Institute of Chicago), Christa Holm Vogelius
(University of Copenhagen)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Geoff

Simonsen, Rasmus R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Materielle Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction:Photography’s Materialities
Geoff Bender and Rasmus R. Simonsen

Section I: The Materialities of Process and
Product

Silver Salts: Realism and Materiality in a
French photograph c.1900
Maura Coughlin

Early Photogravure & the Material
Unconscious
Jacob W. Lewis

Section II: Material Remediations

Every Contact Leaves a Trace: Edith Wharton
and the Forensic Imagination
Mary Marchand

Structuring Desire in Thomas Eakins’s
Painting and Photography
Rasmus R. Simonsen

The Multilingualism of Jacob Riis’s
Imagetext
Christa Holm Vogelius

Section III: Human-Posthuman Materialities

Composita, the “Mascot” of the Class of
1886: A (Fictional) Picture of “Real” Victorian-era College Sisterhood and
Social-Caste Expectations
Kris Belden-Adams

“A Single Multiple Image”: The Visual
Rhetoric of An Ethiopian Chief
Geoff Bender

Spirit Photography & Rogue Objects
Zachary Tavlin

Object Lessons: What Cyanotypes Teach Us
About Digital Media
David LaRocca

Afterword
Rasmus R. Simonsen and Geoff Bender

Gallery with Color Plates
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simonsen, Rasmus R.
Rasmus R. Simonsen is senior lecturer in the Communication Design & Media program at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology.

Bender, Geoff
Geoff Bender is assistant professor in the English department at the State University of New York, College at Cortland.