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This is a volume of primary sources that speak to the relationship between photography and science in Victorian culture. As a product of experimentation, as a tool of scientific inquiry, and as a metaphor for conceptualizing the natural world, photography occupies a central position in the culture of the period. Photography was implicated in virtually every key scientific context of this era, and as such was also the subject of particularly lively and vigorous debate. Indeed, the primary source texts that attend to photography, in a wide range of scientific disciplines, constitute a remarkable, if often overwhelming, resource. The volume will guide readers by selecting and situating a group of texts that register the most significant of these debates in engaging ways. It will provide scholars working in a variety of fields-the history of science, literary studies, and art history, to name only a few-with access to overlooked but critical sources that can stimulate their own inquiries. Students will be immersed in the most vivid disputes of scientific culture, and will benefit from the skills developed by analyzing and situating primary sources.
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PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE IN VICTORIAN CULTURE
Edited by Jordan Bear
Series Editor Introduction
Introduction: An Eye for Analogy: Photography and Vision in the Nineteenth Century
Part 1: Vision Research and the Emergence of Photography
1. Charles Wheatstone, "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 128 (1838): 371-394.
2. Sir David Brewster, "On the Optical Illusion of the Conversion of Cameos into Intaglios, and of Intaglios into Cameos, with an Account of other Analogous Phenomena." Edinburgh Journal of Science 4 (1826): 99-108.
3. William Benjamin Carpenter, "Binocular Vision." Edinburgh Review 108 (1858): 222-241.
4. Hermann von Helmholtz, "The Eye as an Optical Instrument" (1868). Reprinted in Helmholtz, Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects, trans. E. Atkinson (London: Longmans, Green, 1873), pp. 197-226.
5. William Frederick Lake Price, "The Eye and the Camera" (1858). In A Manual of Photographic Manipulation (London: John Churchill, 1858), 21-30.
6. H.S. Schell, "Visual Photography." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science (June 1878): 757-61.
7. Anon., "The Last 'Burst-Up' of an Oft-Revived Photographic Canard." British Journal of Photography 12, no. 247 (27 January 1865): 47.
Part 2: "The Photographic Eyes of Science"
8. Richard A. Proctor, "The Photographic Eyes of Science." Longman's Magazine 1, no. 4 (April 1883): 517-531.
9. E.E. Barnard, "Astronomical Photography: A Brief Historical Review." The Photographic Times 27, no. 2 (August 1895): 65-88.
10. Thomas Skaife, Instantaneous Photography, Mathematical and Popular Including Practical Instructions on the Manipulation of the Pistolgraph (Greenwich: Richardson, 1860).
11. W.N. Jennings, "Jove's Autograph. How He was Induced to Write it on the Photographic Plate." Electricity 1, no. 11 (30 September 1891): 143-5.
12. Eadweard Muybridge, "The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, Illustrated with the Zoopraxiscope." Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution 10 (1882): 44-55.
13. H.G. Wright, "On the Medical Uses of Photography," The Photographic Journal 9 (1867), 202-204.
14. [Hugh Welch Diamond], "The Royal Society." Saturday Review 2 (1856): 81.
15. John Conolly, "The Physiognomy of Insanity: No. 9, Religious Mania," The Medical Times and Gazette N.S. 16 (1858), pp. 81- 83, and "The Physiognomy of Insanity: No. 10, "Religious Mania-Convalescence," pp. 210-212.
16. E.B. Tylor, "Dammann's Race-Photographs." Nature 13 (6 January 1876): 184-85.
17. J.H. Lamprey, "On a Method of Measuring the Human Form, for the Use of Students in Ethnology." The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 1 (1868-69): 84-85.
18. Francis Galton, "Composite Portraits Made by Combining those of Many Different Persons into a Single Figure." Journal of the Anthropological Institute 8 (1879): 132-48.
19. J. Traill Taylor, "Spirit Photography, with Remarks on Fluorescence." The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography (London: Whitaker, 1893), pp. 9-36.
20. Albert A. Hopkins, "Trick Photography." In Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1897), pp. 425-61.
21. A.A.C. Swinton, "Photographing the Unseen." Cornhill Magazine (January-June 1896): 290-296.
Part 3: The Art and Science of Sight: Vision and Aesthetics at the End of the Century
22. Peter Henry Emerson, "Phenomena of Sight, and Art Principles Deduced Therefrom" (1889). In Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art, 2nd ed. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889), pp. 97-121.
23. Henry Peach Robinson, "Naturalistic Photography." In Picture-Making by Photography (London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 1889, pp. 127-38.
24. George Davison, "Impressionism in Photography." Journal of the Society of Arts 39 (December 19, 1890): 65-74.
25. Ferdinand Hurter and V.C. Driffield, "Photo-Chemical Investigations and a New Method of Determination of the Sensitiveness of Photographic Plates." Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry (31 May 1890): 455-469.
26. Peter Henry Emerson, The Death of Naturalistic Photography (London, 1891).
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