“Marvels to Spectacles: Photographic Exploration and ‘The First Glimpse’,” Aperture 21: Curiosity (Summer 2013).

“In a time when the world and its phenomena have been photographed many times over, what can we learn by revisiting the early days of photography, when strange, dramatic, and novel images served as both evidence and entertainment?” The article may be accessed through Aperture’s Archive here.

Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006 (paperback, 2013).

Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (paperback, 2013). In the late nineteenth century, new applications of photography sparked a complex debate about scientific practices and the value of the photographic images in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, from medicine and Read more…

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