Scenes in a library
Subtitle: reading the photograph in the book, 1843-1875
By: Carol Armstrong.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Subjects: Images, Photographic -- History -- 19th century; Photography -- History -- 19th century; Illustrated books -- History -- 19th century
Description: Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself.

In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image and the forty or so years - roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s - during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated by the printed page.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-497) and index.
"An October book."