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Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection

Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection

Nilsen, Micheline

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ISBN10: 1138251151
ISBN13: 9781138251151
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 2 2016
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume offers a thematic exploration of the material, and a socio-historical examination that allows consideration of questions that have not been addressed comprehensively before in a single publication. Themes include exoticism and armchair tourism; the absence of women from architectural photography; the role of photographs as commodities; vernacular architecture and the picturesque; and historic preservation, urban renewal, and nationalism. Micheline Nilsen analyzes photographs from France and Englandthe two countries where photography was inventedand from around the world, representing a corpus of over 10,000 photographs from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

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