ISBN: 0909952809 9780909952808

Category: History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century

Page count: 209

<p>An engaging and provocative account of photography's first commercial applications in England and their global implications. This book addresses a persistent gap in the study of photography's history, moving beyond an appreciation of single breakthrough works to consider the photographic image's newfound reproducibility and capacity for circulation through newsprint and other media in the nineteenth century.</p>