Color and Victorian Photography

Lindsay Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781474264211
• eBook ISBN: 9781000181845
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

Nineteenth-century photography is usually thought of in terms of 'black and white' images, but intense experimentation with generating and fixing colors pre-dated the public announcement of the daguerreotype in 1839. Introducing readers to the long, frequently overlooked story of the relationship of color to photography, this short anthology of primary sources includes: accounts of the scientific search for color by Elizabeth Fulhame and Sir John Herschel;photographers' views on color; extracts from the photographic press and from manuals on handcoloring; and accounts by critics such as John Ruskin. The volume provides a fresh perspective on the culture, history and theory of early photography, demonstrating why scientists, philosophers, photographers, literary writers and artists were so fascinated by the potential for polychrome in photographs. With an introductory essay arguing that from the earliest days of photography the prospect of color loomed large in the imagination of its creators, users and critics, this reader is an essential resource for students and scholars wanting to gain a full understanding of nineteenth-century photography and its relationship to art history, literature and culture.

INDEX

Abney, William de Wiveleslie 179–80

Acland, Henry Wentworth 38

Acland, Sarah Angelina 38–41

acquatint 6, 76

additive synthesis 2, 3, 6

albumen 172, 174, 175

print 5, 7

All the Year Round 54 n.136, 169

Amaral, Marina 44, 53 nn.128–9

amateur practice 16, 38, 54, 67, 144, 165, 179, 181

ambrotype 38

analogue technologies 42–3

aniline dyes 10, 171; see also dyes

anthotype 20; see also photographic processes

Apelles 129, 142

Apollo 22, 33, 142

Archer, Frederick Scott 7

Aristotle 124

Armstrong, Carol 49 n.50

Art Journal, The 160, 165

Atkins, Anna 16–17, 49 n.49

autochrome 36–8, 40–1, 45, 53 n.119; see also photographic processes

plates 37, 45

Barthes, Roland 45, 54 nn.133–4

Batchen, Geoffrey 14, 16, 49 n.41

Bayard, Hippolyte 4, 18

Beard, Richard 1, 28, 186

Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmund 160, 161, 170, 174

Bennett, Terry 47 n.9

bistre see colors

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• A Note on the Texts
• Texts
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates