2001
Book cover for "Photography and the Printed Page in the Nineteenth Century: An exhibition at the Bodleian Library" (Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2001)

Book cover
Private collection of Noel Chanan
27 November 2000 to 31 March 2001.
 
The pencil of nature : the first book published in this country to be illustrated with original photographs
The earliest appearance of the photography on the printed page
From unique image to multiple copies : transferring the daguerreotype onto the printed page in France
The sitter as hero : the portrait multiplied in nineteenth-century Britain
The Art-union : bringing art and photography to a wider audience
- The transition of the photographically illustrated book from exclusivity to mass-popularity
The stereoscopic image : the world seen in depth
The Empire and beyond : recording the past and the present in the mid-nineteenth century
Italy and the onset of mass tourism : packaging the past for the present
The nineteenth-century mind : its myriad professions, pursuits, and passions
- Capturing the spirit to gilding the lily : portraiture and illustration in mid-Victorian prose and poetry
- Photography as truth : the significance of the facsimile as an aid to scholarship and enquiry
- The darkroom opened : early photographic treatises and the response to the new art of photography
- Facing the music : the alliance between photography and the musical stave
- From gentleman amateurs to dedicated professionals : photography comes of age
- Their heads in the clouds : early aerial photography in Paris.
 
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