Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875
Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 by Carol Armstrong\nPublished by MIT Press in 1998\nISBN: 9780262011693\n\nCondition: Good \n\nHardcover with dust jacket. Slight signs of wear on the dustjacket, black boards undamaged. Pages clean and unmarked. Name of a previous owner on the first end page. Bookblock without signs of wear. \n\nDescription:\nHardcover with dust jacket. Contains plenty of images, mostly b/w, one in colour. 511 pages, 184 x 238 mm. In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the forty or so years (roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s) during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated to the printed page. Armstrong focuses on one book about photography (Talbot's The Pencil of Nature); one \""scientific\"" book (Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae); two travel narratives, one factual and one fictional (Francis Frith's Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Observed and his illustrated edition of Long.
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