Photographers:
Connections:

Literature


 
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The intersection of photography and literature reveals a rich history of narrative illustration, authorial portraiture, and the use of the camera as a storytelling device. Luminous-Lint explores how the two mediums have influenced one another, from 19th-century photobooks to modern literary collaborations.

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Contents

Introduction
1Illustrated fiction and poetry
Authors, poets and playwrights
2Authors
3Poets
4Alfred Tennyson, Poet (1809-1892)
Narratives
5Introduction to photographically illustrated narratives
6Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Biblical
7Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Mythological
8Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Arthurian
9Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Historical
10Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Shakespearean
11Meade Brothers Studio: Seven Ages of Man (ca 1860)
12Using photographs to illustrate narratives: Dickensian
13Henry Peach Robinson: Little Red Riding Hood
14C. Eckenrath: Hansel & Gretel
15Francis Frith: Illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hyperion (1865)
16SIP: Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours [Series]
Poetry
17Adelaide Hanscom Leeson: Sonnets from the Portuguese (ca. 1916)
18Man Ray: 1929
19Martin Chambi: Peru - Macchu Picchu
Poetry (of a sort...)
20Introduction to poetry related to photography
21Photographic Phenomena, or the new school of portrait painting (1842)
22Marketing: Root's Daguerrean Gallery (1853)
23Introduction to the carte de visite album
24Lillian E. Curtis: The Lost Photograph (1874)
25C. G. Blatt's Photographic Emporium, Bernville, PA (1870s)
26William D. Jackson, Sr.: Trade card from Waco, Texas (1880-1900)
27To My Sweetheart's Kodak (1890)
Books for children
28Books for children
Fiction and the reality of travel
29Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
References to photography in popular literature
30Photograph albums in popular literature
Contemporary use of photography in literature
31The contemporary photographically illustrated novel

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