Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject

by Jordan Bear

How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography's early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271065028
• ISBN13: 9780271065021
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"