Nineteenth-century photographs and architecture : documenting history, charting progress, and exploring the world / edited by Micheline Nilsen.

Title & Author:

Nineteenth-century photographs and architecture : documenting history, charting progress, and exploring the world / edited by Micheline Nilsen.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Description:

xvii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
pt. 1 Photography and the Discipline of Architecture History: Expanding Vision -- 1. The Isolating Still Focus: Photography and Aesthetic Perception in Jacob Burckhardt's Writings / Anne Hultzsch -- 2. "Worthy of Being Thus Preserved": American Daguerreotype Views and Preservation of the Past, 1840-1860 / Whitney A. Martinko -- 3. History in Albumen, Carbon, and Photogravure: Thomas Annan's Old Glasgow / Robert Evans -- 4. Intersecting Routes of Architectural Travel, Photography, and Survey Books in the Nineteenth Century / Sibel Acar -- 5. Aerial Views and Panoramas: Photographing the Nineteenth-Century Universal Expositions / John W. Stamper -- 6. The Studio Collard and the Barricades of 1871: A Challenge not only to the Architecture of Paris / Michaela Giebelhausen -- 7. Blurred Observations: The Late Nineteenth-Century Grand Tour of Captain J. Douglass Kennedy / Eamonn Canniffe -- 8. Construction Photography in the Service of International Public Relations: The French Connections / Claude Baillargeon -- 9. The Elusive Challenge of Photographing Urban Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Berlin as Exemplar / Douglas Klahr -- pt. 2 Exploring the World -- 10. Francis Bedford-Architecture as Nation / Stephanie Spencer -- 11. The Antiquarian Gaze: Colonialism, Architecture, and the Imaginative Geographies of Ruins in Nineteenth-Century Irish Photography / Justin Carville -- 12. Spanish Architecture Seen by Foreign Photographers of the Nineteenth Century / Helena Perez Gallardo -- 13. Romanian Architecture and Cityscape: The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Photographers / Adrian-Silvan Lonescu -- 14. Romanticizing the Uncanny: Ernst Ohlmer's 1873 Photographs of the European-Style Palaces in the Yuanmingyuan / Maureen Warren.

ISBN:

9781409448334 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409448339 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
2012025013
9782012025011

Subject:

Architecture and photography.
Photography Social aspects.
Architecture et photographie.
Photographie Aspect social.
Architekturfotografie
Architektur
Fotografie
Photography History 19th century.
Architectural photography History 19th century.
Historiography and photography.

Added entries:

Nilsen, Micheline, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282868
Call No.: BIB 220729
Status: Available

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