Maxwell, Sutton, and the Birth of Color Photography [electronic resource] : A Binocular Study /
Cat, J.author.
This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy.
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""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Series Page""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction: Shared Media, Differing Projects and Projections                                                                       ""; ""2 Enter Maxwell                      ""; ""3 Photographic Illustrations                                   ""; ""4 What Objectivity? Whose Objectivity? Automatic Objectivity Is Social and Scientific                                                                                            ""
""5 Photography Organized, Mechanized Scientific: From Amateurs to Professionals                                                                                     """"6 Photography as Instrument and Profession: Art versus Science                                                                     ""; ""7 Photographic Collaborations: Two More Cases                                                    ""; ""8 Maxwellâ€?s Pictorial and Photographic Background                                                        ""
""9 Methodology of Experimental Inaction                                             """"10 Enter Sutton                      ""; ""11 The Place of Collaboration and Chemistry between Men                                                              ""; ""12 Technologies of Projection and Color: Different Problems and Images. Color and Truth                                                                                              ""; ""13 A Tale of Two Experiments: From Professional to Cognitive Autonomy                                                                            ""
""14 Photographic Consequences                                   """"15 Conclusion                    ""; ""References                 ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This focused and incisive study reassesses the historic collaboration between James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton. It reveals that Maxwell and Sutton were closer to true partners than has commonly been assumed, and shows how their experiments illuminate the role of technology, representation, and participation in Maxwell's natural philosophy.
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
Sutton, Thomas, 1818-1875.
History.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
Great Britain—History.
History, Modern.
Photography.
History of Science.
Social History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Modern History.
Photography.