Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection
Routledge
ISBN13:
9781138251151
$76.94
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 England?the two countries where photography was invented?and 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.
- | Author: Micheline Nilsen
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1138251151
- | ISBN-13: 9781138251151
- Author:
- Micheline Nilsen
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Sep 02, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 216 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1138251151
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138251151