Francis Bedford, landscape photography and Nineteenth-Century British culture : the artist as entrepreneur / Stephanie Spencer.

Main entry:

Spencer, Stephanie.

Title & Author:

Francis Bedford, landscape photography and Nineteenth-Century British culture : the artist as entrepreneur / Stephanie Spencer.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
Introduction -- The photographer and his setting -- Wild North Wales -- Healthful Devon -- Pastoral midlands -- Architecture, religion, and architects -- The tour of the Middle East, 1862.

Summary:

This book examines the work of one of Victorian England's premier landscape photographers who was also a successful photographic entrepreneur. In exploring his work, the book also discusses the intersection of nature and culture and the formation of a national identity in nineteenth-century England and Wales.

ISBN:

9781409408536 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409408531 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bedford, Francis, 1816-1894.
Landscape photography History 19th century.
Photographie de paysages Histoire 19e siècle.
Intellectual life.
Landscape photography.
Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273726
Call No.: BIB 207395
Status: Available

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