Table of Contents “...The copy: authorship and reproduction -- The face: the pose and the mask -- Colour: surface a nd depth -- The street: discord and harmony -- Landscapes: nature, culture and power -- History: witnessing atrocity -- The body: ideal and real -- Documentary: engagement and exploitation -- Self: looking in and acting out -- Constructions: signs, fantasy and the tableau form -- Photography tomorrow....”

Table of Contents “...Hippolyte Fizeau's photographic engraving and other media of reproduction / Stephen C. Pinson -- Casting history : the role of photography and plaster casting in the creation of a colonial archive / Sarah Victoria Turner -- Modernising the Victorian : readings of the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron, 1886 to 1914 / Joanne Lukitsh -- The photographic and the picturesque : the aesthetic and chemical foundations of Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard's Activities / Herta Wolf -- Picturesque conflict : photography and the aesthetics of violence in the nineteenth-century British Empire / Sean Willcock -- Sun-struck : Elizabeth Rigby (Eastlake) and the Sun's 'Earnest Gaze' in Calotypes by Hill and Adamson / Lindsay Smith -- 'Carlyle like a rough block of Michelangelo's' : thinking photography through sculpture in Julia Margaret Cameron's portraits / Patrizia di Bello -- Art, reproduction and reportage : Roger Fenton's Crimean photographs / Sophie Gordon -- Impressionism in photography / Hope Kingsley -- 'The poetical talents of our artists' : American narrative daguerreotypes / Diane Waggoner -- 'Radically vicious' : Henry Peach Robinson, Alfred Henry Wall and the critical reception of composition photography 1859-63 / Juliet Hacking -- From 'studies from nature' to 'studies for painting' : Julia Margaret Cameron in the South Kensington Museum / Marta Weiss....”

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