Dear Colleagues:
It’s my pleasure to announce the publication of the book Photography and Other Media in
the Nineteenth Century, co-edited by me and Nicoletta Leonardi.
From the publisher:
In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography’s
vital role in the evolution of media and communication
in the nineteenth century.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development
of a cheaper and more
reliable postal service, the rise of the mass-circulation press, and the
emergence of the railway dramatically changed the way people communicated and experienced
time and space.
Concurrently, photography developed
as a medium that changed how images were produced andcirculated.
Yet, for the most part, photography of
the era is studied outside the field of media history.
The contributors to this volume challenge those established disciplinary boundaries as they programmatically explore the intersections of photography and “new media”
during a period of fast-paced change. Their essays look at the emergence and early
history of photography in
the context of broader changes in the history of communications; the role of the nascent photographic press in photography’s
infancy; and the
development of photographic techniques as part of a broader mediaculture
that included the mass-consumed novel, sound recording, and cinema.
Featuring essays by noteworthy historians in photography and media history,
this discipline-shifting examination of the communication revolution of the nineteenth century is an essential addition to the field of media studies.
In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Geoffrey Batchen, Geoffrey
Belknap, Lynn Berger, Jan von Brevern, Anthony Enns, André
Gaudreault, Lisa Gitelman, David Henkin, Erkki Huhtamo, Philippe Marion, Peppino Ortoleva, Steffen Siegel, Richard Taws, and Kim
Timby.
You can find Photography and Other Media in
the Nineteenth Century on the Penn State University Press web site at this
URL: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07916-5.html
Take 30% off with code NLSN18 when you order through psupress.org
Be sure to ask for it at your local library and bookstore!
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Dr. Simone Natale
Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies
Loughborough University
Department of Social Sciences
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
Phone (work): (+44) (0) 1509223380
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